
Ensure that Only in this document is selected to limit your custom style to your current document.Select the OK button to close the Modify Style dialog box.
Select another style to change or select the OK button to close the Manage Styles dialog box. How to Delete or Modify the Footnote or Endnote Separator Line Your new footnote or endnote style should appear immediately. (This dialog box won’t appear if you only have footnotes or endnotes.) (Optional Step) If you have footnotes and endnotes, choose View footnote area or View endnote area followed by the OK button in the Show Notes dialog box.Select Show Notes in the Footnotes group.Select the References tab in the ribbon.(Word normally opens in the Print Layout view.) Select Draft in the Views group to switch to the draft view. (You can also use the options in the Font group in the Home tab.) Select and delete the separator line or use the options in the font Mini toolbar to modify the style.Select Footnote Separator or Endnote Separator from the menu in the Footnotes pane at the bottom of the screen.It is not possible to modify the style of the footnote separator and endnote separator at the same time. Increasing the font size will increase the line thickness. Changing the font color will change the line color. Highlighting can be applied to the line. The bold font option can be applied to the line.įigure 19. After modifying the separator line, select the Print Layout button at the bottom of the screen (or in the View tab) to return to the Print Layout view. Your separator line modifications should appear immediately.Footnotes and endnotes in a Word document are useful entries for explanations and comments. However, the information may be trivial or even useless in some cases, especially when you have inherited the document from others and need to edit and update the notes. In such cases, it may make more sense to start afresh after removing all the footnotes and endnotes. In a large document with many entries, removing the notes individually may be a tedious exercise. We will explain all the methods for removing footnotes and endnotes: Word allows removing footnotes and endnotes individually, as well as collectively. Individually by selecting the reference number.
Individually remove a specific footnote or endnote.Method #1: Remove footnote or endnote individually by selecting its reference number Step #1: Open Word document Step #2: Select the desired reference number Open the document with footnotes and endnotes. Position the cursor before the reference number of the footnote or endnote that you want to remove. Press the Delete button on your keyboard. Step #3: Delete the specific footnote or endnote Word selects the reference number next to the cursor.
Press the Delete button a second time, and Word deletes the reference number and its related footnote or endnote.