(The box looks like an arrow pointed down and to the right at a 45-degree angle.) (It's the seventh tab in from the left.)Ĭlick the tiny box in the bottom-right corner of the Footnotes tab, to customize your footnote settings. Navigate to the location in your document where you want to add a footnote.Ĭlick the References tab at the top of your Word display.
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Here's how to add a footnote in Word 2016 for Windows: A minor or tangential comment or event added or subordinated to a main statement or more important event.An explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.Additional Microsoft Office 101 tutorialsīefore getting into the tutorial, a definition of "footnote" could be useful, to help explain when and where you want to use them.How to add an endnote in Microsoft Word.How to add a footnote in Microsoft Word.Whether you're writing a report that needs references to other sources, doing research for the next great Hemingway-esque novel, or just creating a printed list to organize and navigate your ridiculous collection of vintage hats - with references to where you purchased them, as well as outfit pairing suggestions - Microsoft Word 2016 for Windows has a number of "reference" features that make it easy to insert footnotes and endnotes quickly.