Endnotes, on the other hand, are added to the end of a section or document. Which one you should use in your writing depends on your personal preference or-if you’re writing for school or work-your organization’s publication standards. How to Insert Footnotes and Endnotesįire up Microsoft Word, and then open the document to which you’d like to add footnotes (or create a new document if you’re just getting started). Switch to the “References” tab on Word’s Ribbon. To change the default location of endnotes, select the “Endnotes” option, and then open the dropdown menu to its right. There, you can change endnote placement to the end of the current section or the end of the document.Ĭonvert Footnotes to Endnotes (and Vice Versa)Īnother option is to convert all of your footnotes to endnotes or vice versa. Instead of changing each one individually, this option lets you change them all at once. If you’re working on a document with a lot of notes, this option can come in handy. Under the “Location” section of the Footnote and Endnote menu, click the “Convert” button.

The Convert Notes dialog box pops up, giving you three options: 1) Convert All Footnotes to Endnotes, 2) Convert All Endnotes to Footnotes, and 3) Swap Footnotes and Endnotes. Select the option you want, and then click the “OK” button.Ĭhange the Layout of Footnotes and Endnotesīy default, Word creates footnote and endnote lists with the same layout as the page on which they appear.

However, you can adjust this from the Footnote and Endnote window by clicking the “Columns” dropdown menu and selecting the number of columns you’d like to use. If you want your footnotes or endnotes to start somewhere other than the first number in the series (for example, 2 instead of 1), click the arrows in the “Start At” dropdown box to increase or decrease the beginning value. One example of where this might be useful is if you’re writing a book that contains endnotes and you’re saving each chapter as a separate Word document.

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