Globally changing endnote reference style

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Globally changing endnote reference style

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All the sudden all 462 of my endnotes changed from 10pt superscript to 12pt italics.

I can't figure out what happened, or how to get them all back.

When I try the Styles>Manage Styles> etc. it will add any NEW endnotes properly; but, it doesn't CHANGE BACK the existing 400+ endnotes. What to do?

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.3K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Put the selection in an Endnote and then press CTRL+SHIFT+s which will cause the Apply Styles dialog to appear with the Endnote Text appearing in the Style Name control.

Then click on the Modify button and in the Modify Style dialog that appears, change the font to the one that you want.

Note, the Endnote Text is not normally superscripted. Looking at the title of your post it appears that you may be talking about the Endnote References in the body of the text rather than the text of the Endnotes themselves? If that is the case, select one of the references in the body of the document and follow the process described above to display the Apply Styles dialog and with the Endnote Reference style appearing in that dialog, click on Modify.

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Thank you. I think I was missing the step that I either had to be IN the endnote (to change the global "endnote text") OR to select the endnote number itself (to change the global "endnote reference"). It worked after a couple of tries playing with settings :) WHEW! I was scared I'd have to manually adjust each of the 400+ references. TY.