It may, depending on your document and how you envision working with it, introduce other problems, but it is still the cleanest way to deal with this particular problem. That way 'sections within sections' becomes 'sections within documents' and the problem goes away. Mary Anne wonders how to get Word to start renumbering the footnotes at the beginning of each chapter, not each separate section.īelieve it or not, the easiest way to deal with this is to break up your document into individual files for your chapters. But there's a problem: some of the chapters contain landscape as well as portrait pages, which she has to set in sections, too, so there are sections within sections. She has configured the footnotes to start at number 1 at the beginning of each section (chapter). The text has several chapters, each of which she has placed in a separate section. Mary Anne is preparing an academic text that has footnotes. I hope this helps! Stay tuned for more Word tips and tricks on our blog and in our newsletter. Now you will have the endnotes appearing in the new section you created just for them and can add new sections and pages following the new endnote section. This tells Word not to show the endnotes at the end of each section selected but to push them forward until the next section that does not have them suppressed. Check the box that says Suppress endnotes and click OK.In your Page Setup options, go to the Layout.

If you are having trouble highlighting your sections to select them all at once, you can go into each of your sections one at a time and do the next step. Select all sections that appear before this new section.Next, create a new section at the end of your document where you want your endnotes to appear.I know this is not what you want-stick with me! This will change all of your endnotes to now appear at the end of each section, not at the end of the book. Change your endnotes to appear at the End of section.Right click on one of your endnotes and select Note Options.To get around this, you will need to do the following: (Watch the video version of this article above)

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