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How to view all footnotes in a Word document?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-07-16

When working with documents that contain numerous footnotes, it can be helpful to view all footnotes at once to review or edit them more efficiently. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to view all footnotes in a Word document without scrolling through the pages one by one.

View all footnotes in a Word file with Show Notes function


View all footnotes from a Word file with Show Notes function

In Word document, you can view all footnotes at once by changing the file format to Draft view, please do as this:

1. Open the word document that you want to view all footnotes, and then click View > Draft, see screenshot:

doc view all footnotes 1

2. Then, go on clicking References > Show Notes, see screenshot:

doc view all footnotes 2

3. Now, all footnotes within this whole document have been displayed at the bottom pane as following screenshot shown:

doc view all footnotes 3

Note: If there are both footnotes and endnotes in your document, when clicking Show Notes option, a Show Notes dialog box pops out, please select View footnote area option, see screenshot:

doc view all footnotes 4

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