MS-Word / General Formatting

Finding a Footnote Reference

To quickly find the reference mark for a particular footnote or endnote, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Home tab, and in the Editing group, choose Find → Go To.
    Or, press Ctrl+G. You see a dialog box that isn't worthy of a separate figure.
  2. In the Go To What list box, select Footnote or Endnote.
  3. In the Enter Footnote Number text box, type the number of the footnote you want to go to.
    If the notes are numbered with reference symbols (*, †, ‡, and §), type the corresponding number (1, 2, 3, and so on).
  4. Click Go To and then click Close.

Or, for an even easier method, click the Select Browse Object button, located near the bottom of the scroll bar on the right edge of the document window. Then choose one of these buttons from the pop-up menu that appears:

  • Browse by endnote
  • Browse by footnote

The double-headed up- and down-arrow buttons that appear above and below the Select Browse Object button change so that they go to the previous and next footnote or endnote, respectively.

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In this tutorial:

  1. Referencing with Microsoft Word
  2. Creating a Table of Contents or Table of Figures
  3. Creating a Table of Contents
  4. Updating a Table of Contents
  5. Heading Styles
  6. Creating a Table of Figures or Other Similar Tables
  7. Footnotes and Endnotes
  8. Changing the Footnote Format
  9. Changing the Reference Marks
  10. Finding a Footnote Reference
  11. Indexing Your Masterpiece
  12. Creating an Index
  13. Updating an Index
  14. Marking a Range of Pages
  15. Creating References and Sources
  16. Creating a Bibliography
  17. Tables of Authorities
  18. Creating a Table of Authorities
  19. Updating a Table of Authorities
  20. Adding Your Own Categories
  21. Working with Outlines and Master Documents
  22. Working with Master Documents
  23. Whipping up a master document
  24. Putting an existing file into a master document