How to remove footnotes quickly in Word?
Footnotes are a useful feature in Word documents for adding references or additional information without cluttering the main text. They consist of two parts: the note reference mark and the corresponding note text. However, there may be times when you need to remove footnotes.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through efficient methods to quickly remove one or all footnotes in Word, making your document editing process faster and more efficient.
Remove all footnotes with Find and Replace Function
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Remove a footnote from your document manually
When removing footnotes manually in Word, you need to work with the note reference mark in the document, not the text of the footnote itself. What is the note reference mark? See the figure below:
To manually remove footnotes from your document, follow these steps:
- Select the note reference mark of the footnote you want to remove.
- Press Delete to remove the footnote.
Removing a footnote manually is simple, but if your document contains many footnotes, manually removing them one by one can become tedious and time-consuming. In such cases, the following methods can help you remove all footnotes efficiently.
Remove all footnotes with Find and Replace function
Find and Replace function can remove all footnotes from document easier and free user from one by one operation. Find and Replace function remove footnotes, as follows:
Step 1: Select the Replace button from the Editing section of the Home ribbon;
Step 2: Place the cursor in the Find What box, and select Footnote Mark from the Special drop down list (or type “^f” into the Find What box);
Step 3: Click the Replace All button.
Find and Replace function does well in removing all footnotes comparing with manually operation.
Remove all footnotes with one click by 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.
After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:
Click Kutools > More > Remove Footnotes from drop down list.
Then a dialog pops out to remind you ensure remove all footnotes from the whole document. Click Yes to go on removing footnotes, click No to cancel.
If you want to remove footnotes from part of document, select the part, then apply Remove Footnotes.
Demo: Remove All footnotes in Word
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