# Inserting and Editing Footnotes or Endnotes

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Inserting and Editing Footnotes or Endnotes
Footnotes reference more information about a topic at the bottom of a page and endnotes reference information at the end of the document. $[officename] automatically numbers the footnotes and endnotes.
To Insert a Footnote or Endnote
- Click in your document where you want to place the anchor of the note.
- Choose Insert - Footnote/Endnote.
- In the Numbering area, select the format that you want to use. If you select Character, click the browse button (...) and select the character that you want to use for the footnote.
- In the Type area, select Footnote or Endnote.
- Click OK.
- Type the note.

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You can also insert footnotes by clicking the Insert Footnote Directly icon on the Insert toolbar.

To Edit a Footnote or Endnote
- The mouse pointer changes to a hand when you rest it over a footnote or endnote anchor in your document.
- To edit the text of a footnote or endnote, click in the note, or click the anchor for the note in the text.
- To change the format of a footnote, click in the footnote, press Command+T F11 to open the Styles and Formatting window, right-click "Footnote" in the list, and then choose Modify.
- To jump from the footnote or endnote text to the note anchor in the text, press PageUp.
- To edit the numbering properties of a footnote or endnote anchor, click in front of the anchor, and choose Edit - Footnote/Endnote.
- To change the formatting that $[officename] applies to footnotes and endnotes, choose Tools - Footnotes/Endnotes.
- To edit the properties of the text area for footnotes or endnotes, choose Format - Page, and then click the Footnote tab.
- To remove a footnote, delete the footnote anchor in the text.