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Help with Endnotes & Footnotes in MS Word

If there are endnotes and a Works Cited page:

Do not set up endnotes and then type the Works Cited below where you see the endnotes. Instead, put the Works Cited at the end of the actual text of the document. One way to ensure this is to type them in "Normal View". then put a forced page break after the Works Cited.

If the endnotes should print after the body of the text and before the Works Cited, then position the cursor at the end of the body of the text, and do this:

  • Insert a forced page break and then a Section Break.
  • Go to Insert > Footnote... ,
    • select the radio button for "endnote"
    • click the "Options" button in the lower right corner
    • see the dropbox called "Place at:"
    • drop it down and select "End of Section"
    • Click "OK" on this box,
    • but click "Cancel" on the next one, to avoid adding an unwanted endnote. (Actually, if you do add one, you can just delete the endnote reference.)

On the endnotes page, if you are getting the "endnotes separator" (a horizontal line just above where the endnotes begin) and if you don't want the line, here's how to make it go away:

  • Get into Normal View
  • Click View > Footnotes
  • At the bottom of the screen, see the dropbox named "endnotes"
    • Drop it down and click "Endnote Separator"
    • You will see the line (the one you don't want).
    • Hold down the "Delete" key till the line is erased.
    • Click View > Footnotes to get back to the body of the document.
    • That's it.

If the endnotes are spilling over onto a second or more pages, and you don't want the long line at the top of each of them, use the same steps as above, only select "Endnote continuation separator" instead of "Endnote separator".