Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 28, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016
Word allows you to locate your footnotes in a couple different places in your document. Regardless of where you place footnotes, it is possible that a long footnote could overrun the space allocated for footnotes. In such an instance, Word automatically continues the footnote on the following page.
In these cases, you can specify that Word use special wording at the bottom of the footnote area to indicate that they are continued on the next page. For instance, you might want Word to print Continued on next page... at the bottom of any footnotes that will be split. To change the continuation notice, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box.
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2019-08-29 16:26:15
David Small
If you don't want a footnote continuation notice, yet a blank line (TNR12 paragraph mark) appears in the footnote continuation notice, how do you delete it? It's messing up my page flow.
2017-03-26 16:45:45
Gary
Allen, you might also want to think about fixing the error in the comment validation question. "What is 7 + 8?" . Well you'd think the answer is 15. But apparently the system you're using doesn't agree. It wouldn't let me post a comment until I entered the 'correct' answer of 1.
Yes, 1, as in one.
2017-03-26 16:42:09
Gary
This doesn't work for me in Word 2016.
After some searching it looks like this feature was deprecated in Word 2013.
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12886041-restore-footnote-continuation-notice
Microsoft only acknowledge that they removed the continuation separator feature though (even though it still shows up in the Footnotes pane drop-down).
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Discontinued-features-and-changed-functionality-in-Word-2013-5d3b898a-7923-4cd3-aff6-3d19e1767155#bkmk_footnoteseparator
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