Footnotes Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Returns a Footnotes collection that represents all the footnotes in a range, selection, or document. Read-only.

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

Example

This example changes the footnote reference marks for the footnotes in the active document to lowercase letters, starting with the letter "c".

With ActiveDocument.Footnotes
    .StartingNumber = 3
    .NumberStyle = wdNoteNumberStyleLowercaseLetter
End With
		

This example inserts an automatically numbered footnote at the insertion point.

Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _
    Text:="(Lone Creek Press, 1995)"