Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 27, 2023)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
Elsen is working on his dissertation, and the style he must follow requires that footnote numbers restart at 1 after each page break. Elsen wonders how he can make sure that Word restarts the footnote numbering as he needs.
This is relatively easy to do in Word. Here's how:
Figure 1. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box.
The result is that your footnotes should start over, at 1, for each page in your document.
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2023-11-27 04:40:57
Kiwerry
@Ler: Strange. Your comment piqued my curiosity, so I created a document two pages long in Word (365) with a footnoted word on each page. When I switched from "Continuous" to "Restart Each Page" and clicked "Apply", the numbering changed as expected. I suspected it might depend on whether the footnotes were placed below the text or at the foot of the page, but that made no difference; the numbering still changed as expected.
2021-06-18 10:13:20
Ler
This did not work for me. The footnotes' numbering remains continuous throughout the whole document, even though "Restart Each Page" and "Whole Document" are selected.
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