Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. 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: Deleting All Footnotes.
Certain types of documents require the use of footnotes to help document sources or provide additional information relative to the content being discussed. At some point you may want to delete all the footnotes in your document. One thing you can try is to do a simple search and replace to remove all the footnotes. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
This approach works because when you delete footnote marks, the footnote associated with that mark is also automatically deleted.
If you find yourself ridding lots of documents of their footnotes, you may want to create a macro that will do the job for you. This macro can then be assigned to the Quick Access Toolbar or to a shortcut key. The following macro will remove all the footnotes in a document:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. 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: 
Sub DelFoots()
Dim fn As Footnote
For Each fn In ActiveDocument.Footnotes
fn.Delete
Next
End Sub
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2016-03-31 14:49:45
sewa mathews
Thanks it helped me a lot
2015-02-12 09:06:22
Vicki T
Thanks so much, this did the trick!
2015-02-03 09:48:14
Mike Shaw
Thanks! This worked like a charm. I could not figure out how to get rid of that pesky box at the bottomof the page. Much appreciated.
Mike
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