Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes

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Formatting Footnotes and Endnotes

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Open source word processors have long featured much finer and more logical ways to customize reference note text and numbers than MS365 does. Why, for instance, does Word not provide an easy way to stop reference note numbers from being superscripted in the actual notes? As it stands, it seems to be either/or for both body and note. Why? It's not a complex coding problem.

Is there an existing fix for this basic omission? Will there ever be one?

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Answer 1

For footnotes, specifically, you can add a couple of macros to your Normal template that intercept the built-in InsertFootnote and InsertFootnoteNow commands. The prerequisite is that you modify the Footnote Text style to include a hanging indent.

Sub InsertFootnote()

'Based on macros from wordmvp.com, minor changes by Stefan Blom, MVP

ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range

With Selection

   .Paragraphs(1).Range.Font.Reset

   .Paragraphs(1).Range.Characters(2) = ""

   .InsertAfter "." & vbTab

   .Collapse wdCollapseEnd

End With
ActiveWindow.ScrollIntoView Selection.Range

End Sub

Sub InsertFootnoteNow()

'Based on macros from wordmvp.com, minor changes by Stefan Blom, MVP

ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range

With Selection

   .Paragraphs(1).Range.Font.Reset

   .Paragraphs(1).Range.Characters(2) = ""

   .InsertAfter "." & vbTab

   .Collapse wdCollapseEnd

End With
ActiveWindow.ScrollIntoView Selection.Range

End Sub

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