The steps also apply to Word 2021, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word 2010. The images below are from Word for Microsoft 365. These tools automatically maintain sequential note numbers, create space for endnotes at the end of the document or section, and make sure that your footnotes stay with their associated text-even if that text moves to a different page. That’s when Word’s footnote and endnote tools really come in handy. Manually inserting individual footnotes and endnotes in Word is relatively straightforward: type a superscript number in the main text and then scroll to the bottom of the page, section, or document to type your note.īut manually inserting notes can get tricky if your document is more than a couple of pages long or has a lot of notes because you also have to manually update number sequencing and text placement as notes are added or deleted. You’ve now got rid of that empty paragraph for ALL footnotes in your document.This tutorial shows how to insert footnotes and endnotes in Microsoft Word using the tools in the ribbon. Change the view back Print Layout ( View tab > Print Layout).Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it.Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below.Now you can see the separator and the empty paragraph:.Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator.A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:.Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes.You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft).You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below.You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line. The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below. When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.

Insert footnotes in powerpoint