Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Inserting Footnotes Using Custom Footnote Marks.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 4, 2019)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Footnotes are used to provide printed annotations or references for a document. Word makes it very easy to insert automatic footnotes in your documents. What if you want to insert a custom footnote, however? Fortunately it is just as easy:
The steps are slightly different if you are using Word 2003:
Figure 1. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box
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