If you are working in Draft view, click Close when you are finished converting.Īs you convert each endnote or footnote, it is moved to the other window and the reference marks for the note are updated to what is currently being used for the series (footnote or endnote) to which you are converting. In the Draft view, show the endnotes by clicking the Show Notes command on the Page Layout tab.Select the appropriate choice on the Context menu, which should either be Convert to Endnote or Convert to Footnote (depending on what you right-clicked on).Right-click on the footnote or endnote you want to convert.Select the option you want, and then click the OK button. The Convert Notes dialog box pops up, giving you three options: 1) Convert All Footnotes to Endnotes, 2) Convert All Endnotes to Footnotes, and 3) Swap Footnotes and Endnotes. Click on the type of note from which you want to convert and then click on OK. Under the Location section of the Footnote and Endnote menu, click the Convert button. If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box (Word 2007) or the Show Notes dialog box (Word 2010 or a later version).If you are working in Draft view, display the References tab of the ribbon and click Show Notes.To convert from an endnote to a footnote (or vice versa), follow these steps: In the footnote/endnote view, click Format Footnotes or Format Endnotes to display the Format Options dialog, where you can change the size, font, and indentation of one or.
These steps can also be used to convert individual endnotes to footnotes.
You can easily convert between the two, but the way you do the conversion is not necessarily intuitive. To customize a footnote or endnote: Click the reference number or mark in the body of the text or click Insert > Show Footnotes(for endnotes, click Insert > Show Endnotes). Learn how to convert individual footnotes to endnotes in Microsoft Word. Word is flexible on whether a note is considered an endnote or a footnote.