Append Footnote Notification For Free

If your documents contain footnotes or endnotes, you will have run into the concept of separators, which are the short (or long) lines Word inserts between your body text and the footnotes at the bottom of the page or the endnotes at the end of the document or section.

In those instances, Word may not renumber the footnotes until you resolve all the outstanding changes by accepting them or rejecting them. Another possibility is that you have somehow changed the properties of some of the footnotes so that their numbering is no longer continuous.

Using the Notes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes pane, choose Footnote Continuation Notice. The current notice appears in the window. (Note that the notice might be originally blank, so you might not see anything in the window.) Change the notice as desired.

On the References tab, click Show Notes. Word will display footnotes in a pane at the bottom of the document window. In the drop down, change "All footnotes" to "Footnote continuation notice" and clear its contents.

You can set the Keep lines together property for a given footnote paragraph or for the Footnote Text style, and this will ensure that footnotes are not broken because the text reference and the entire note will be carried to the next page.

If a footnote or endnote overflows onto the next page, you can create a continuation notice to let readers know that a footnote or endnote is continued on the next page.

Using the Notes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes pane, choose Footnote Continuation Notice. The current notice appears in the window. (Note that the notice might be originally blank, so you might not see anything in the window.) Change the notice as desired.