A footnote is a note that appears at the bottom of a page. Quite often used by writers to cite the publications of other authors in their papers. We will show you how to work with footnotes in Microsoft Word.
Inserting a footnote
To insert a footnote, place the cursor in the document where the footnote should be, and press the command Insert Footnote (Insert footnote) tab Reference (Links).
At the bottom of the page where we created the footnote, Word will automatically insert a separator line and give the footnote a number.
Each footnote will be marked with a superscript serial number and will be located next to the related place in the document.
Hover the mouse pointer for a few seconds over any footnote label to see the contents of the associated footnote, or press the command Next Footnote (Next footnote) on tab Reference (Links) to move from one footnote to another.
Custom Footnote Format
We can customize the footnote format by clicking on the little arrow in the bottom right corner of the section Footnotes (Footnotes) tab Reference (Links).
Here you can choose from different number formats and special characters to identify our footnotes.
In addition, we can convert our footnote into an endnote, for this we need to check the box endnotes (Endnotes) in section Location (Position).
Re-linking a footnote
Microsoft Word maintains a list of footnotes in a document as a list of cross-references.
We can re-refer to any footnote in any part of the document.
This is how footnotes are created in Microsoft Word. Of course, footnotes are just one of the types of links supported in Word. Using all possible types of references, we can create full-fledged bibliographies.