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How to remove all footnotes quickly in Word?
This tutorial will show you how to insert footnotes into a document using Word 2011 for Mac. Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 More. You can refer to the same footnote or endnote multiple times in your document. Refer to the same footnote more than once. On the View menu, click Print Layout. In your document, click where you want the reference to be located.
Footnotes are used for detail comments in printed documents, and it consists of two parts- the note reference mark and the corresponding note text. Microsoft Office Word always places footnotes at the end of each page. Many users are wondering how to remove footnote or remove which part of footnote. This tutorial will show you the different ways to remove the footnotes from document.
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Remove footnotes from document manually
When you want to remove the footnotes manually in Word, you need to work with the note reference mark in document window not the text in the note. What is the note reference mark? See the following figure:
To remove footnotes from document manually, do the following steps:
Step 1: Select the note reference mark of footnote that you want to remove;
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Step 2: Press Delete.
Obviously, remove footnote manually is not difficult. But what if there are many footnotes in the document and you want remove them all? Then manually remove will be tedious and time consuming.
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.
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Find and Replace function does well in removing all footnotes comparing with manually operation.
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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.
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After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:(Free Download Kutools for Word Now!)
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 documen, select the part, then apply Remove Footnotes.
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Using Zotero 5.0 with Word 2011 for Mac here.
My Zotero footnotes automatically insert 3-5 line breaks in a footnote.
So, for example the footnote starts out looking normal (initial number is superscript):
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
but then Zotero refreshes and adds unnecessary breaks:
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of
Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
I try to remove these unwanted line breaks in Word, both putting my cursor at the beginning and clicking delete, and by highlighting the whole note and pushing cmd+1 to impose single spacing, but with both methods Zotero periodically re-inserts the unwanted line breaks. I checked in the Zotero classic editor, but the line breaks do not show up there. The only workaround I found is to remove field codes when I am done with the document and edit it manually. This is not ideal.
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can fix it?
My Zotero footnotes automatically insert 3-5 line breaks in a footnote.
So, for example the footnote starts out looking normal (initial number is superscript):
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
but then Zotero refreshes and adds unnecessary breaks:
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of
Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
I try to remove these unwanted line breaks in Word, both putting my cursor at the beginning and clicking delete, and by highlighting the whole note and pushing cmd+1 to impose single spacing, but with both methods Zotero periodically re-inserts the unwanted line breaks. I checked in the Zotero classic editor, but the line breaks do not show up there. The only workaround I found is to remove field codes when I am done with the document and edit it manually. This is not ideal.
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can fix it?
- This isn’t Zotero, but a Word setting. Change your view in Word to “Draft”, then from the References tab, click Show Notes. From the Dropdown, choose “Footnote separator” and delete the blank lines. Then choose “Footnote continuation separator” and also delete the blank lines. You will want to delete these in Normal.dotm or whatever template you are using.
- Thanks, @bwiernik. And sorry for a sluggish reply.
I tried what you suggested, but found that there were no blank lines in the 'Footnote continuation separator' or the 'Footnote separator'
If you're sure it's nothing in Zotero, I'll focus more on finding an issue in Word. - What happens when you insert regular footnotes in Word in between the Zotero-created footnotes. Same spacing issue or do those look right?
- Thanks @adamsmith.
The issue is inexplicably gone.
I have tested a Word footnote between two Zotero-created ones, just to be safe, and no random spaces appeared.
If it crops up again, I'll respond to this thread. - Hey @adamsmith the line break issue has re-emerged, although I cannot figure out why.
As you advised, I double checked by going into draft view and checking to make sure there were no line breaks. No change.
I also tried highlighting the footnote text and forcing single spacing with Cmd+1 in Word. That works temporarily, but then when Zotero updates the citations, the unwanted line breaks re-emerge. That's why I suspect the issue is emanating from Zotero.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for your help.
Matt - What version of Word 2011 are you on? Does every item cause issues or only specific ones?
- Thanks @adomasven and apologies for a sluggish reply.
Word 2011 for Mac version 14.7.1
In my experience, only the very first item has the unwanted line breaks. Others appear normally. - With 'item' I meant Zotero items. Do only specific Zotero items cause this or is it any one? What happens when you insert regular footnotes in Word in between the Zotero-created footnotes. Same spacing issue or do those look right?
- I see.
I have not noticed a pattern. Any item seems to be causing the issue as long as it is the first. - Could you be more specific about 'the first item'? Is this within a single footnote citation with multiple items cited, in which case, if there is only one cited item, does it not occur? Is it the first footnote in the document? On the page?
- Sure thing. When I say the first item, I mean the text of the first footnote of the entire Word document, which itself is a footnote composed entirely of a Zotero-generated citation .
I can remember these unwanted line breaks occurring when only one work is cited in the first footnote. I am unsure whether line breaks occur when there are multiple works cited in the first footnote.
I tried opening a few documents and so far there is no issue, so I cannot test it, but when/if I see the issue again I will test what happens when I have multiple or a single work cited in the first footnote. - In the hour since writing my last comment, Zotero periodically updated the citations in the Word document I had looked at. Now the first footnote contains unwanted line breaks. It is only the very first footnote where these line breaks occur. This particular footnote contains multiple Zotero-generated citations as well as a prefixes I entered into the pop up window.
- Have you noticed this in multiple documents or only this one? If you make a copy of it, remove everything but the first citation and refresh the document, do you still get these newlines? If so, could you email it to [email protected] with a link to this thread?
- I have noticed this problem in multiple documents.
I have made a copy and tried to refresh the citations. The lines have disappeared for the time being. I'll let you know if anything happens... - This issue also emerged in the third footnote of a different document. Still on page 1, but footnote no. 3.
The Zotero-generated footnote contains no prefixes or suffixes, nor any of my own edits directly in Word -- just citations for four different books and articles from my Zotero library, generated by Zotero. - Hello again
Just writing to let you know on Zotero (5.0.55.1) using Word 2011 for Mac (14.7.1), Zotero citations still serve up an unwanted line break in my footnotes on the first page of a document when Zotero automatically updates the citations.
I have tried adding trivial edits in the Classic Editor, hoping that the edits might disable automatic updates for the problem area, but this has not worked.