Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 15, 2020)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
Footnotes and endnotes are an important part of many documents. If you have a document that includes many footnotes, you may need to convert all those footnotes to endnotes. This is a common occurrence to meet the needs of different audiences—some prefer footnotes, and some prefer endnotes.
To convert all your footnotes to endnotes, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box.
Figure 2. The Convert Notes dialog box.
At this point all your footnotes are dutifully converted to endnotes and your entire document is repaginated to reflect the change in layout.
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