#Ms word footnote numbering how to#

This is actually quicker to do than it is to describe.

Repeat for the remaining incorrectly numbered footnotes.

Ctrl+V to paste the copied content into that new footnote.

Insert a new footnote using Ctrl+Alt+F.

Select the footnote reference in the document body and delete it ( do not use Cut!).

Double-click on the reference number to go to that place in the document body.

Select all the textД®xcept for the footnote number and Ctrl+C to copy it. Because I opened and closed the file multiple times during creation, each time I began a new session, Word wanted to start a new footnote at '1.' Using the Footnote dialog box, I would 'force' the new starting number for that session to be the next number in sequence (i.e.

Find the first footnote with incorrect numbering.

This will open the Footnotes pane so that you can see all the notes at once.

Switch to Draft view and then, on the References tab, click Show Notes.

Often the easiest solution is just to rebuild the footnotes as follows: That the numbering is set to Continuous for all notes). I dont know how this could go more wrong. Making the note numbers 10 made the endnote text 10 pts. If I change the endnote reference to superscript, the entire document went into superscript.

#Ms word footnote numbering how to#

If the footnotes were pasted from a WordPerfect document, then you may not be able to repair them (though you can try, by going to the Footnotes dialog and making sure Suddenly, MS Word 2019 doesnt know how to do an endnote. Word inserts a reference mark in the text and adds the footnote mark at the bottom of the page. Doug's reply concerns paragraph numbering and is not applicable to footnote numbering. Usually, footnotes appear at the bottom of the page and endnotes come at the end of the document or section.