Microsoft Word automatically numbers footnotes and endnotes for you, whether you use a single numbering scheme throughout a document, or different numbering schemes within each section in a document. After you insert the first footnote or endnote in a document or in a section, subsequent footnotes and endnotes are automatically numbered with the correct format.
Viewing and printing footnotes and endnotes
If you're viewing the printed document on-screen, you can view notes by resting the pointer on the note reference mark in the document. The note text appears above the mark. When you print the document, footnotes appear where you specified: either at the end of each page or directly below the text. In the printed document, endnotes also appear where you specified: either at the end of the document or at the end of each section.
Footnotes and endnotes on a Web page
Microsoft Word automatically changes the footnotes and endnotes to hyperlinks and moves the footnotes to the end of the Web page. If the document also contains endnotes, Word places them directly after the footnotes. Word inserts short horizontal lines called note separators to separate the main text from the footnotes and the footnotes from the endnotes. In the browser, custom note separators appear as short horizontal lines.