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Styles: Footnote versus Footnote Reference

Anonymous
2015-08-02T01:59:14+00:00

Hi,

Can anybody please explain the difference between the style "footnote" and the style "footnote text".  I am adding footnotes to an existing document and when I insert a footnote the style is "footnote text".   However the existing footnotes have the style of "footnote". 

Thank you

Michelle

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  1. John Korchok 231.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-08-02T02:15:44+00:00

    "Footnote" may be a user-created style invented by the creator or a subsequent user of your document. Word creates 2 styles for footnotes: Footnote Reference for the styling of the superscript character and Footnote Text for the actual text of the footnote. You'll always get better results with automatically formatted Word text (like footnotes), if you use the automatically generated styles. Anything else involves a lot of manual labor.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T03:22:50+00:00

    Thank you John.  Good to know that Word only ever creates 2 styles for footnotes.

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