

What it doesn't allow is for you to specify any extra characters that should be included with the reference.

When you insert footnotes in a document, Word allows you to modify the formatting applied to the footnote references. One area where there may be confusion is in how Word uses styles in your footnotes. If you spend a great deal of time putting you styles together, it may be a bit confusing to figure out how to use those styles in practice. Word is great in that it allows you to create styles that define how you want your text to appear. There are a couple of ways you can approach this problem, as discussed in this tip.Īutomatically Applying Custom Styles to Footnotes You may want Word to use a tab instead of the space. When you add a footnote to a document, Word's normal formatting adds a space after the footnote number and before the body of the footnote. Here's a discussion as to why and what you might do about it. Word doesn't do footnotes within endnotes.
