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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:
Figure 1. Footnote and Endnote dialog box.
If you previously inserted footnotes into your document, and you want to later delete one of them, follow these steps:
The footnote is deleted and, if you are using auto-numbered footnotes, the remaining footnotes in your document are renumbered.
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2014-07-16 07:53:33
karen
I have to write my first academic assignment and will have to use foot notes. I am not sure how to do this and wondered if there was anyone who could provide a simple explanation. Do I create the bibliography first and then what ??
would really appreciate a step by step as I really have no how this works and how you change the reference in the bibliography to Harvard or Chicago??
thank you
karen
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