Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Copying and Moving Footnotes.
Word implements a full-featured footnote system that allows you almost total control over where and how footnotes are printed. If you have previously inserted footnotes into your document and you want to duplicate a footnote, you can use techniques you already know for copying regular text. To copy a footnote, follow these steps:
If you instead want to move a footnote to another location in your document (or even in another document), you can use similar techniques. All you need to do is use Ctrl+X in step 2 instead of the noted Ctrl+C.
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2016-11-01 14:17:17
Lynn Ate
When I use the process described to move a footnote, the number of the footnote goes up. EX: I want to move footnote #1; I move it using ctrl+X and ctrl+V, and it moves but becomes footnote #2. There is now no footnote #1 either in the document or in the footnotes. This same thing happens if attempting to move later number footnotes. I end up with breaks in the numbering of footnotes.
2014-04-29 21:22:45
Bahnass
I translated a document into another language and i put the footnote reference in the new document in correct position, now i want to copy the text footnote from the old document to the new document which i translated ... What can i do.....thanks for your help
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