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Long-time users of Word know that you can place endnotes in a document and you can specify for them to appear either at the end of a section or at the end of the document as a whole. What you may not know is that you can choose to suppress endnotes for specific sections of your document.
What does this mean for you? Let's say that you have five sections in your document. The first four are "chapters," and the last one is an index. You may think that you are limited to placing your endnotes at the end of each chapter or after the index. Not so; you can specify that you want the endnotes to appear at the end of the fourth section, just before the index section. Just follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
That's it. What you did was to suppress endnotes in sections 1, 2, and 3. This pushes them to the end of section 4, which is your last chapter—exactly where you wanted them before your index in section 5.
As a final note, if you find that the Suppress Endnotes checkbox is grayed out (step 7), it is because your endnotes are not set up to be at the end of each section. (Reread step 2—you need to make sure that your endnotes are specified to appear at the end of each section.)
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2015-11-26 12:35:27
Sophie
Sorry, didn't read the comments and just found the answer to my query. Yay! Been going mad O_O
2015-11-26 12:33:24
Sophie
Despite defining my section and choosing endnotes to appear at the end of the section, my endnotes keep appearing at the end of the document. (I want to put them in a reference section towards the end of the document but not at the very end.)
2015-08-27 15:22:48
mohammad
Thanks sir, Even without continuous selection it worked (in office 2013).
2015-08-21 04:34:10
MDC
Thanks you! I was driven mad when editing someone else's document because it wouldn't put my endnotes at the end of section, even though I told it to. Turns out they had selected Suppress Endnotes.
2015-06-08 11:02:16
Nate
Very helpful. Exactly what I needed! Thank you very much.
2015-04-15 17:04:01
aspeck
Thank you, very helpful. That's the answer I was looking for.
2015-01-27 11:31:35
awyatt
Spillman: See the final paragraph ("As a final note...") which addresses your question specifically.
-Allen
2015-01-27 11:24:57
Spillman
This sounds great, but as in your screen shot, suppress endnotes is grayed out and it cannot be selected. Is there a step missing?
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