Can I convert footnotes to endnotes?

Can I convert footnotes to endnotes?

Q I’ve spent months creating a long document in Word, detailing the life and times of myself and my wife (for the benefit of my children and grandchildren after we’ve gone). As part of this I’ve added lots of footnotes, but now that I come to look at the completed document I find they make a mess of some pages, as the odd page seems to be about a third footnotes! I’m wondering if there’s any way to push all these footnotes to the last page, so that my family can just flip to the back if they want to know more. I made this document in Word 2016, incidentally.

Philip Mason

A Yes, you can do this – simply by converting the footnotes to endnotes. To do this, right-click in the footnote area at the bottom of the page and then choose Note Options (see screenshot below). Next, in the ‘Footnote and Endnote’ menu that appears, click the Convert button.

Finally, choose the ‘Convert all footnotes to endnotes’ option and then click OK.