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: Copying and Moving Footnotes.

Copying and Moving Footnotes

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 3, 2020)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003

Word implements a full-featured footnote system that allows you almost total control over where and how footnotes are printed. If you have previously inserted footnotes into your document and you want to duplicate a footnote, you can use techniques you already know for copying regular text. To copy a footnote, follow these steps:

Highlight the footnote reference mark in your document.
Press Ctrl+C. The footnote reference mark and the associated footnote are copied to the Clipboard.
Position the insertion point at the location where you want to copy the footnote.
Press Ctrl+V. The footnote reference mark is inserted in your document, and the associated footnote is added to the footnotes section. If you are using auto-numbered footnotes, all the footnotes in your document are renumbered.

If you instead want to move a footnote to another location in your document (or even in another document), you can use similar techniques. All you need to do is use Ctrl+X in step 2 instead of the noted Ctrl+C.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1150) applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Copying and Moving Footnotes.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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2016-05-06 22:29:01

Garry Munday

I have a document that has been formatted to add footnotes to the bottom of the relevant pages. I wish to change that to having them at the end of each chapter.
I don't seem to be able to find it in your tips. Can you help, please.
Garry

2015-10-13 04:04:06

Merry

Moving text that has footnotes presents a problem if you don't remember to mark the footnotes first (not always a priority when editing).

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