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How to view all footnotes in a Word document?

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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 using the Show Notes function

Remove all footnotes with one click using Kutools for Word


View all footnotes from a Word file using the Show Notes function

This method will guide you through viewing all footnotes in a Word document by switching to Draft view and using the Show Notes feature.

  1. Open the Word document where you want to view all footnotes, then click View > Draft.

    Draft button on the View tab on the ribbon

  2. Click References > Show Notes.

    Show Notes button on the References tab on the ribbon

All footnotes in the document will now be displayed in the bottom pane.

Footnotes displayed in the bottom pane

Note: If your document contains both footnotes and endnotes, a Show Notes dialog box will appear when you click Show Notes. Select View footnote area in this dialog box.

Show Notes dialog box


Remove all footnotes with one click using Kutools for Word

Kutools for Word provides the easiest and fastest way to remove footnotes. You can remove all the footnotes from a part of document or the whole document.

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To remove footnotes from a specific section, select it and apply Remove Footnotes. To remove all footnotes in a document, leave the document unselected and proceed:

  1. Click Kutools > Remove > Remove All Footnotes in Selected Ranges.

    Remove Footnotes option on the Kutools tab on the ribbon

  2. A dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the removal of all footnotes from the entire document. Click Yes to proceed with removing the footnotes, or click No to cancel the action.

    Confirmation dialog

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