You simply edit footnotes wherever they are located on the page?typically under a footnote separator line that stretches about one-third of the way across the page. In Print Layout view, there is no separate note pane (see Figure 22.2). If the note pane does not appear, choose View, Footnotes to display it, or double-click on any footnote or endnote reference mark. When you press Alt+Ctrl+F to enter a footnote, Word places a footnote reference mark at your insertion point and opens the Footnote pane for editing. If you were to insert an endnote instead, it would look much the same except that it would use "i" for notation and the note pane would be set for endnotes. Figure 22.1 shows how this note pane looks immediately after you insert your first footnote. In Normal view, when you insert a footnote or an endnote, Word also typically displays the note pane. In the Comman ds scroll box, click on the command you want to add?in this case, either Footnote or Insert Endnote Now.ĭrag the command to the Text button on the shortcut toolbar drag down to choose the shortcut menu you want to use (Text) then drag across the cascaded menu and release the mouse pointer where you want the command to appear. The Shortcut Menus toolbar appears.Ĭlick the Commands tab and choose Insert from the Cate gories scroll box. To do so, follow these steps:Ĭhoose Tools, Customize, and click the Tool bars tab.Ĭheck the Shortcut Menus check box in the Toolb ars scroll box. If you use footnotes and endnotes often, you can add them to the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click on text in your document. If this is the first endnote in your document, the letter is "i" if you have already inserted endnotes, Word uses the next letter after your last endnote, following the sequence i, ii, iii, and so on. Word inserts a note reference mark containing a lowercase letter. To insert a standard endnote, place your insertion point where you want the endnote mark to appear, and press Alt+Ctrl+D. If this is the first footnote in your document, the number is 1 if you have already inserted footnotes, Word uses the next number after your last footnote, using the sequence 1, 2, 3, and so on. Word inserts a note reference mark containing a number. To insert a standard footnote, place your insertion point where you want the footnote mark to appear, and press Alt+Ctrl+F. How footnotes are separated from other text on your pagesīy using Word's controls, you can customize your footnotes or endnotes for any type of document, including specialized documents such as legal documents, which may have strict footnote or endnote requirements. What kind of footnote or endnote marks (called note reference marks) you use How your footnotes and endnotes are sequenced Where your footnotes appear on your page and exactly where your endnotes are placed at the end of your document Of course, you can control the text that appears in your footnotes and endnotes?and how that text is formatted. When you use Word's footnote and endnote features, you get extensive control over your footnotes and endnotes. Word can automate the most annoying aspects of managing footnotes and endnotes: sequencing and placing them properly. You can use them both in the same document. Both footnotes and endnotes are equally easy to insert?and easy to work with after you add them. Notes compiled at the end of a document?or at the end of a section?are called endnotes. In Word, footnotes appear at the bottom of your current page. Footnotes and endnotes are notes that provide more information about specific text in your document.