How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

In this article, you are going to learn that how to insert footnote and endnote in Microsoft word 2016. Inserting footnote and endnote in word documents help you. To give more information about a part of your document or introduce anyone. Or explain any difficult word in your document to the bottom of your page. Here you can insert in each page and section a footnote or endnotes like a comment or citation. As you see in some books which have like these footnote or endnote when they want to write the name of any source. Or they want to write the meaning of any difficult word. Now to insert footnote & endnote in your document read the following steps.

Insert Footnote & Endnote in your Word Document

Step 1#. In the first step, you are going to insert a footnote (Alt+Ctrl+F) in your document. To insert a footnote go to your document and click on your word then, click on the INSERT FOOTNOTE button to insert a footnote. When clicked in this option first, a number will add to your word. Then the copy this number will be paste to the bottom of your page and you can write your information there.

How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

Inserting Footnote

Step 2#. Now you can insert endnote (Alt+Ctrl+D) to your document. Different between footnote and endnote is this. Through to footnote you can write your information at the end each page which your word is also on that page or below the current text. But through to endnote, you can write your note at the end of your document or end of the section. For example, some of the books are like this, they wrote the sources at the end of the book and wrote the explanation of any word or introduction of any person at the end of each page.

How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

Inserting Endnote

Step 3#. Now, when you have inserted all the endnotes and footnotes in your document. And you want to check them or you want to add or remove any information from them. Use this option to go next footnote and endnote. Or come back to the previous footnote and endnote to check them.

How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

Next and Previous

Step 4#. When you have done all and next time opened your document for using in each place of page or section you want to see the endnotes and footnote click on Show Notes option. In the new window choose the types of note. This option jumps you suddenly on the footnotes or endnotes each page or section.
How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016

Check Out More Options to Insert Footnote & Endnote

Step 5#. Now on this option, you can bring some changes or set some settings on footnote and endnote. To apply the settings on the notes click on the corner of the footnotes group which has circled. Here you can change the location of inserting and saving the notes, here you can change the footnotes layout and formats. Go and change them according to your document if you need.
How to Insert Footnote & Endnote in Microsoft Word 2016
Click for More Options

Conclusion

Here as I delivered all the steps are the way to insert footnotes & endnotes in your word documents. They help you to remove any ambiguous point from your document. Now you can insert footnotes & endnotes in your document and you can change the location, formats, layout and etc. write down a comment if you have any question and thanks for being with us.

Ali Rafayee is newly working in WiKigain as a writer. He is specialist in Microsoft office Currently He is studying mechanical engineering at Poly-technical University of Saint Peters-burg Russia.

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