
Convert all endnotes to footnotesĪnother dialog box will pop up called the convert notes dialog box. Select convertĪ dialog box will show up after clicking on the dialog box launcher. It is the arrow in the bottom left corner of the second column. Select the footnote and endnote dialog box launcher. Go to the references ribbon at the top of the screen Your endnote will move from the end of the document to the bottom of the page as a footnote.Īfter Converting all endnotes to footnotes simultaneously 1. Once you have arrived at the note, right-click on it and select ‘convert to footnote’ from the list that appears. From it, click ‘next endnote’ until you come to the desired endnote. In the show notes column, click the drop-down arrow next to ‘next endnote’. Note: You will not see this dialog box if your document has only footnotes or only endnotes. Go to the references ribbonĪ dialog box will pop up, and from it, select ‘view endnote area.’ Make sure the Use Wildcards radio button is cleared.If your document is short, you can scroll to the endnote that you want to convert and leave the clicker there.If this approach doesn't work, try just a bit of a different approach: Footnote Format The purpose of these steps is to try to remove any confusion that Word may be experiencing and cause it to renumber all the footnotes. In the Replace With box enter the following: ^&.Click OK to close the Find Style dialog box.Locate and click on the Footnote Reference style.With the insertion point in the Find What box, click Format and choose Style.Click the More button, if it is available.Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.You can figure this out by putting the insertion point in the section containing footnote 24, displaying the Footnote and Endnote dialog box, clicking Options and examining how the numbering is configured in that dialog box.įinally, if you've tried everything else and the numbering is still messed up, try to 'force' Word to examine the numbers it is using. It is also possible that the document has multiple sections in it and that each section (or at least the section containing footnote 24) has been configured so that footnotes for that section begin with a specific number. Display the dialog box again and you can figure out if this is the case. Meaning, whoever created the footnotes actually inserted the numbers within the Custom Mark field of the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. If you are doing your edits without Track Changes being turned on, then it is possible that your footnotes don't use automatic numbering. When the changes are accepted or rejected, then Word will renumber the footnotes accordingly. Word doesn't renumber the footnotes because the footnote is still there-albeit marked for deletion. In that case, deleting the footnote doesn't actually delete it, but simply marks it as deleted text. When many people edit documents, they do so with Track Changes turned on. The answer could be quite simple, and related to using the Track Changes feature of Word.

Roger wonders what could be causing this problem with the footnotes. The footnote was actually deleted, but the remaining footnotes did not renumber. Roger went into the document body, found the footnote marker for the appropriate footnote, and then deleted it. The document had 90 footnotes in it, and he needed to delete footnote 23. Roger was sent a Word document that he needed to edit. The comment will be refreshed after 00:00.
