Getting Started with Word animation Tutorial 95: Editing footnotes and endnotes

Take a footnote, for example.

Change the number format of footnotes

The steps are as follows:

1. Place the insertion point in the section where you want to change the footnote format, and if there is no section, place the insertion point anywhere in the document.

2. Execute "Insert" → "reference" → "footnote", open the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

3. Click to select the Footnote option.

4. In the Number Format box, select the type of format you want. If the document is divided into sections, selecting this section in the Apply Changes to Drop-down box changes only the footnote format for this section, and selecting entire document changes the full text footer format.

5. Click the Apply button.

Two, set the footnote separator

In Word, the short horizontal line separating the body and footer of the document is called the annotation separator, and its formatting can be set or changed.

The steps for setting the footnote separator are as follows:

1. Switch to normal view.

2. Perform "view" → "footnote", and in the View Footnote dialog box, select View footnote area to display the footnote editing pane.

3. In the Drop-down list in the pane, select footnote separator.

4. Select the separator, you can make changes in color, border and other formats, select and press the DELETE key to remove the separator, or you can change it to other types, such as inserting clip art or typing text symbols, and so on.

Tip: To revert to the default separator, click the Default Settings button. In this pane, you can also set the footnote continuation separator, footnote continuation flag, and so on.

Iii. reciprocal conversion of footnotes and endnotes

For all footnote and endnote operations, the steps are as follows:

1. Perform "insert" → "reference" → "Footnote and endnote" to open the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

2. Click the Convert button to open the Convert Comment dialog box.

3. Select the options you want to make.

4. Click "OK" button. At this point, the footnote or endnote in the document has been converted.

5. Close the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

If you have only one footnote or endnote operation, use the following procedure (for example, convert footnotes to endnotes):

1. Switch to normal view.

2. Perform "view" → "footnote", and in the View Footnote dialog box, select View footnote area to display the footnote editing pane.

3. Right-click the annotation you want to convert, and choose Convert to Endnote from the shortcut menu.