Appreciate any help, and many thanks in advance. Goal: 1 abc (note space between footnote number and footnote text)Īpologies for long message, but I wanted to ensure that I explain the question correctly. But my goal is to have the footnote number to be on the left as inserted, and the text to be indented (say by 0.5 cm).ĭefault MS Word footnote number and text: 1 abc Since I am working with a large document the goal is to automate this process so that I do not need to manually provide space between footnote number and footnote space.Īs initial attempt to resolve this (and after few hours of internet search), I went to Styles->Manage Styles->Footnote Text->Modify->Format->Paragraph->IndentationĪfter adjusting left indentation, the footnote number and footnote text both are indented from left. My goal is to have more spacing (say 0.5 cm) between footnote number and footnote text. You will want to delete these in Normal.dotm or whatever template you are using.

Then choose Footnote continuation separator and also delete the blank lines. From the Dropdown, choose Footnote separator and delete the blank lines. By default, MS Word provides a single space between footnote number and footnote text. Change your view in Word to Draft, then from the References tab, click Show Notes. On Windows, select Note Options and on Mac, pick Footnote from the shortcut menu. For this reason, most professors allow them to be. While it’s relatively easy to exclude footnotes from a word count, it’s much more difficult to exclude them from a page count. Footnotes are found at the bottom of the page and don’t take up much of the page space in most instances.

My question is regarding the footnote number and footnote text at the bottom of the page. Go to one of the notes in your document and right-click it. Yes, footnotes generally count toward page count. I have inserted a footnote, the footnote number appears as a superscript of the word, and at the bottom of same page a footnote number appears, then I am using some text to provide more information for the footnote at the bottom of page.

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