
NB: Following the procedure above will give automatic, consecutive numbering.
Double-click the footnote reference mark to return to the reference mark in the document. Word inserts the note reference mark and places the insertion point in the text area of the new footnote. Open the References tab and in the Footnotes group select Insert Footnote. You can use a single numbering scheme throughout a document, or you can use different numbering schemes within each section of a document. Microsoft Word automatically numbers footnotes for you. A technically inelegant solution, admittedly.311In Word, how do I insert and delete footnotes? Then take a screen-shot of it and insert the picture of the table & notes into the main document. Yet another option is to have the table with notes in another document. Using dynamic links any changes to the table will show up in the main document. Number the note manually or use the SEQ field to autonumberĪnother option, which we’ve not tried, is to put the tables with notes in another document then link the tables into the main document. Add the note text at the bottom or, to ensure the notes move with the table, add a full-width row to the bottom of the table, remove the border/cell lines and add the note text into the ‘invisible’ cell.
Clone the Footnote/Endnote styles so they match the rest of the document. One workaround is to manually create ‘notes’ at the bottom of a table. Alas, since this idea has nothing to do with cloud services, apps or other Redmond marketing strategies, it’s unlikely to be done in the foreseeable future)
Users could then configure this additional ‘notes’ option however they like with Continuous Breaks to separate each instance. (What Word needs is a third ‘…notes’ option called, say, TableNotes or ExtraNotes. What if you have traditional Footnotes and Endnotes plus notes at the bottom of tables? Microsoft has no solution for that, you’re left to your own ingenuity. That will save trouble if the document is rearranged. For a long document, it would be good practice to put a Continuous Section Break after each table, including the last one.