

(Optional Step) If you have footnotes and endnotes, choose View footnote area or View endnote area followed by the OK button in the Show Notes dialog box.Select Show Notes in the Footnotes group.Select the References tab in the ribbon.(Word normally opens in the Print Layout view.) Select Draft in the Views group to switch to the draft view.How to Delete or Modify the Footnote or Endnote Separator Line

Your new footnote or endnote style should appear immediately. Select another style to change or select the OK button to close the Manage Styles dialog box.Select the OK button to close the Modify Style dialog box.Ensure that Only in this document is selected to limit your custom style to your current document.If Automatically Update is checked, you won’t be able to manually change the style of individual footnotes or endnotes.įigure 8. Ensure that Automatically Update is not checked.Important Note: The Font, Font size, Emphasis, and Font Color are the only options available for the Footnote Reference and Endnote Reference styles. Select new styles from the eight formatting options in the Modify Style dialog box:.Endnote Reference (superscripted number, letter, or symbol in the text).Footnote Reference (superscripted number, letter, or symbol in the text).Select the style you want to modify from the Select a style to edit menu.Select Alphabetical in the Sort order menu in the Manage Styles dialog box.Select the Manage Styles button in the Styles pane.Select the dialog box launcher in the Styles group.įigure 2.Any existing and new footnotes will have this style as well.How to Modify the Style of Footnotes and Endnotes The style will change and become the default but only in this document. Choose Update Footnote Text to Match Selection from the list.Right mouse click the Footnote Text style .You can also modify the spacing, colour and anything else you can do with text. Select the text in the Footnote and using the Home tab, choose your Font style and size.There are a few ways to do this but this is the easiest. With the text in the Footnote selected, you should see the style (Footnote Text) highlighted (3) with a blue box around it..A styles pane appears at the right of your screen. Click the Dialog box launcher icon (1) in the bottom right corner of the group (See diagram).From the Home tab, in the Styles group (Style Gallery).The footnote Style probably won't appear in the Style Gallery on the Home tab, so you need to locate it in the Styles pane. You can change the Footnote text to a different Font and/or size using its own Style (called Footnote Text), so it's just a matter of locating and modifying the style. By default your Footnote text is the same Style as your Normal style but with a smaller font size, usually 10pt.
