Adding Information after the Endnotes

Linda knows how to add endnotes to the end of a document. What she wants to do, however, is to add a page after the endnotes so she can add additional references that need to be included with her document.

It is possible to do this, but it depends on how your document is organized. If your document contains multiple sections, then the easiest way to do this is to use a separate document for your "after" information. You can, if desired, create PDF documents from both documents and then combine the PDFs using a program such as Adobe Acrobat.

Again, that's the easiest approach if your document has multiple sections in it. If your document doesn't have sections, however, there is something you can do. To understand what is going on in testing this approach, though, you should display non-printing characters. Do this by displaying the Home tab of the ribbon and clicking on the Show/Hide tool. (This tool looks like a backward P—a pilcrow—and is in the Paragraph group of the Home tab of the ribbon.)

Next, press Ctrl+End. This moves the insertion point to the very end of the document. If you see the insertion point just before the start of the endnotes, then you are good to go. Now insert a section break:

1. Display the Layout tab of the ribbon.
2. Click the Breaks tool, within the Page Setup group. Word displays a drop-down list of options.
3. Choose Next Page, which is the first option under the Section Breaks heading.

At this point, the insertion point jumps to the next page. If you press the Up Arrow once, you can see (provided you turned on Show/Hide) the section break you inserted. Go ahead and press the Up Arrow one more time, which ensures that the insertion point is before the section break. Now follow these steps:

1. Make sure the References tab of the ribbon is displayed.
2. Click the small icon at the bottom-right of the Footnotes group. Word displays the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. (See Figure 1.)



Figure 1. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

3. Click the Endnotes radio button.
4. Using the drop-down list to the right of the Endnotes radio button, choose End of Section.
5. Click the Apply button.
6. Click Cancel to close the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

After this change, the endnotes should jump up to the same page where you inserted the section break. Now you can press Ctrl+End, and you are taken to the end of the document, just after the section break. You can then add the additional reference items you need in the document.

This approach works because you (1) inserted a section break and (2) told Word to place the endnotes at the end of the section. Again, this approach will only work if you have two sections in your document—the one for your main document and the one you created by inserting the section break. This is because even though Word allows you to place the endnotes at the end of the section, it doesn't allow you to specify which section they should be placed after, as would be required if your document has more sections.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (6034) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Adding Information after the Endnotes.