If you try to insert footnotes and endnotes in Word, this guide will show you how. You can add Wikipedia footnotes and endnotes to your Microsoft Word document. Regardless of the size of your document, you can insert as many footnotes as you want using this tutorial.
What are footnotes and endnotes in Microsoft Word
Footnotes and endnotes help you display additional information in Microsoft Word at the end of a page or document. They work like a “postscript”.
You can add multiple footnotes on each page, but you can’t do the same with Endnote. An endnote should be posted at the end of the document. In other words, Endnote can only appear on the last page of your document.
When writing a project or documentation, you may need to add a few lines on a topic, which you cannot insert in the middle of the existing paragraph and this is where the footnotes and help.
Footnotes appear as 1, 2, etc. while the end note appears as “i”.
How to insert footnotes and endnotes in Word
To insert footnotes and endnotes in Word, follow these steps:
- Open the document in Microsoft Word.
- Select a location where you want to insert the footnote or endnote indicator.
- Go to the References tab.
- Select the option Insert a footnote or Insert an endnote.
- Write the footnote and the endnote.
Finish editing your document so you know where you need to enter the footnote or endnote. If you have already finished, select a location where you want to display the footnote or endnote indicator (i.e., 1, 2, 3, i, etc.). After that go to References tongue.
Here you can find two options –
- Insert a footnote and
- Insert end note.
You must choose what you want to add and select the option accordingly. Then you can start writing notes.
After finishing, you can click on the Next footnote to check all footnotes one by one.
You can also click on the Show notes button, which will help you to check all footnotes and endnotes as per your requirement.
If you want to change the font family, size, style, etc. footnotes and endnotes, you should follow the usual method.
That’s it! I hope this simple guide will help you.