That way the Normal style remains unchanged and you won't have unintended consequences such as you see with the Footnote Separator line. Pick another style-perhaps Body Text-or create your own custom styles to use for your text. Besides the steps already outlined, there are two other ways around this problem.įirst, you can make a personal rule that you never use the Normal style for any of your regular document text. If these lines start showing some strange formatting characteristics, it is more than likely because you've made some changes in how the Normal style is defined. By default, the Footnote Separator and the other separator lines used by footnotes and endnotes all use the Normal style. While the above works just fine, there is one other thing you might want to keep in mind.
The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator.Click on the View Footnote Area radio button.
If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box.Display the References tab of the ribbon.(Click on the Draft View icon on the status bar of the document.) Make sure you are viewing your document in Draft view.As a paragraph, you can easily format it just as you would any other paragraph. The footnote separator is inserted, automatically, by Word in its own paragraph. Jim would rather have the footnote separator align to the left column, rather than being indented. It lines up with the indented first line of a normal paragraph. Just above the footnotes and below the page's text is the footnote separator. Use the View tab to return to Read Mode, Print Layout view, or Web Layout view.When Jim prints his document, the footnotes appear as they should at the bottom of each page. You can edit the color or style of the separator by choosing options on the Home tab, or, to delete the separators, click Footnote Separator in the Footnotes list, and then select and delete the separator line. The Footnotes pane appears at the bottom of your document. You can remove or change the line that separates footnotes and endnotes from body text.Ĭlick the View tab, and then click Draft in the Views group.ĭouble-click any footnote or endnote in the body of your text. Remove or change a footnote or endnote separator Make sure the Replace with box is blank, and then click Replace All. In Word 2016 for Mac, click the arrow at the bottom of the Find and Replace dialog box to show all options.
In the Find what box, enter either ^f for footnote or ^e for endnote.Īlternatively, you can enter these symbols by clicking the More button to expand the dialog box, clicking Special, and choosing either Endnote Mark or Footnote Mark in the list. In the Find and Replace dialog box, click the Replace tab. In Word 2016 for Mac, on the Edit menu, click Find > Advanced Find and Replace. In Word 2013 or Word 2016, press Ctrl + H. Place your cursor at the top of your document, and then open the Advanced Find and Replace dialog box. To find and remove all footnotes or endnotes, use the Find and Replace tool: Remove all footnotes or endnotes from a document As well, if you find an endnote you want to delete, you can right-click it, select Go To Endnote, and delete the number there.
To remove the endnote, delete the “i” in the body of the text (the one with the pink box around it in the image above) and that endnote disappears. Removing an endnote works the same way as removing a footnote: Another way you can do this is to right-click the footnote at the bottom of the page, select Go to Footnote and then delete the number there. When you do that, the footnote itself disappears. If you want to delete the footnote (that’s at the bottom of the page), delete the number “1” in the body. Here’s an example of a footnote the footnote is at the bottom of the page: If you delete the footnote or endnote itself, Word renumbers the notes in a new order. Important: It’s the reference number or mark that you delete (in the body of the text), NOT the footnote or endnote itself.