The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. The real solution is for Microsoft to fix this long standing bug or, even better, provide a more elegant way to print/publish a document with an option to remove footnotes or endnotes from the published version. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button. That’s OK as a one off event but cumbersome if you need to do it regularly. See Hiding footnotes and endnotesĪside from that, your only real choice is to clone the document, delete the footnotes entirely and print/publish the edited clone. This leaves little spaces which can be reduced by changing the ‘Footnote Reference’ style to Font size 1pt (the minimum). Remove any Spacing Before or After from the Footnote Text paragraph style. The workaround we can think of is to change the ‘Footnote Reference’ to Font | color White (or other background color) instead of Hidden. that wont go just be using back space, as usual. A reasonable enough request which is difficult to do in Word even without the bug.Īs usual, the Microsoft Knowledge Base has no reference to this despite the passage of many years and doubtless many bug reports to Microsoft. how to print or make a copy of a Word document for distribution without footnotes. We found it while trying to answer a question we’d received from a few readers i.e. Using the Notes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. We’ve tried this in both Word 2010, Word 2013 all the way up to the latest Word 365 – there’s some minor display variations but essentially it’s the same bug in all releases of Word. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button and then click on OK. Word 2003/2004/2008/2011: Go to the Tools Menu and choose EndNote (or EndNote Web) > Configure Bibliography, Bibliography Settings or Format Bibliography. The order that you change the styles in makes no difference.