Changing the Footnote Continuation Notice

Word allows you to locate your footnotes in a couple different places in your document. Regardless of where you place footnotes, it is possible that a long footnote could overrun the space allocated for footnotes. In such an instance, Word will automatically continue the footnote on the following page. In these cases, you can specify that Word use special wording at the bottom of the footnote area to indicate that they are continued on the next page. For instance, you might want Word to print Continued on next page... at the bottom of any footnotes that will be split. To change the continuation notice, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you are viewing your document in Normal view. (Click on the Normal View icon at the bottom-left corner of the document, or choose Normal from the View menu.)
2. Select Footnotes from the View menu or, in Word 2007, display the References tab of the ribbon and click Show Notes.
3. If you are using Word 2000 or a later version, and you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.) Click on the View Footnote Area radio button and then click on OK.
4. Using the Notes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Continuation Notice. The current notice appears in the window. (Note that the notice is originally blank, so you might not see anything in the window.)
5. Change the notice as desired.
6. When you are satisfied with the wording and appearance of the notice, close the footnote window.