How To Update Footnotes In Word

Delight Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Discussion in Office 365. If yous are using an before version (Give-and-take 2003 or earlier), this tip may non work for y'all. For a version of this tip written specifically for before versions of Give-and-take, click here: Changing the Manner Footnotes Are Numbered.

Changing the Mode Footnotes Are Numbered

In Word, footnotes can be automatically numbered from 1 through the number of footnotes in the document. Thus, if your document contains xiv footnotes, they volition be numbered 1 through 14. You can change the way footnotes are numbered, still. Discussion allows you to specify both a starting footnote number and whether the numbering starts over with each new section in your document.

Give-and-take allows yous to change how it handles footnote numbering by following these steps:

Brand sure the References tab is selected on the ribbon.
Click the minor downward-pointing arrow at the lower-right corner of the Footnotes group. Word displays the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. (Meet Figure 1.)

Figure i. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

Make sure the Footnotes radio button is selected.
Modify the Start At value to reflect where yous desire Word to commencement numbering.
Change the Numbering drib-down list to reverberate how you want Word to count your footnotes.
Click on Apply and then Cancel; otherwise click Insert to add a footnote mark at the current document location.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word preparation. (Microsoft Word is the most pop discussion processing software in the world.) This tip (5973) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Changing the Way Footnotes Are Numbered.

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