Inserting and Deleting Footnotes

Footnotes are used to provide printed annotations or references for a document. If you want to insert a footnote in your document, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point where you want the footnote mark to be located.
2. Choose Footnote from the Insert menu. (On later versions of Word you will need to select Reference from the Insert menu, and then choose Footnote.) You will see the Footnote and Endnote dialog box appear. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. Click on OK or Insert (depending on your version of Word). A footnote mark appears in your document. If you are in Normal view, the Footnotes window is displayed at the bottom of the document window. If you are in Print Layout view, the insertion point moves to the bottom of the page where the footnote will appear.
4. Enter your footnote, formatting it as you would any other text in your document.
5. If the Footnotes window is visible, click on Close at the top of the Footnotes window.

If you have previously inserted footnotes into your document, and you want to later delete one of them, follow these steps:

1. Highlight the footnote reference mark in your document.
2. Press either Del or Ctrl+X.

The footnote is deleted, and if you are using auto-numbered footnotes, the remaining footnotes in your document are renumbered.