Dear Ms. Byte,

I opened a document that had all the information I needed and saved it with a new name. I’ve been working on it today and just realized that it has several footnotes. I would like to delete all of the footnotes in this document, is that possible?

Sincerely – Isaac R.

Dear Isaac R.,

It sure is! And pretty simple, too. Read on…

Sincerely – Ms. Bytes

Footnotes

Many documents can benefit from a footnote – they allow you to provide a source for a cited piece of text or add helpful information. But deleting footnotes is also important. The first thing we like to try is utilizing the power of MSWord’s Find and Replace feature. There are so many useful things you can look for in your document (i.e. a specific style, a symbol, etc.) and many things with which you can replace them.

Split Screen

Here is an example of a few footnotes – notice the active Split Screen? If you would like to get more information on how to use a Split Screen, click here . For the purpose of this example, the Split Screen makes it easy to see the top and bottom of the page at the same time. In your document, Isaac, you won’t need to split the screen as you search for footnotes.

Deleting Footnotes

Deleting Footnotes

Pressing Ctrl+H will display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

Deleting Footnotes

  1. In the Find What box, enter the following: ^f. This means you want to search for footnotes.
  2. Make sure the Replace With box is empty.
  3. You can click on Find Next to find the footnotes one at a time. When a footnote is found, you can click Replace and it will remove the footnote and find the next footnote in your document.
  4. Or you can click on Replace All – all of the footnotes will be deleted. Or to be specific, all of the footnotes will be replaced with nothing.
  5. Close the Find and Replace dialog box.

 

Watch the video to see how deleting footnotes is super easy!

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