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LeLIC2490
Copper Contributor
Jun 08, 2022

Columns in Footnotes

Hello,

I have a document full of footnotes and oftentimes the footnotes are lengthy and I would like to make the footnotes appear in columns. 

How do I access the column format settings for the footnotes?

 

Can't find any help online anywhere!!

Any ideas??

 

Thanks

  • Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP's avatar
    Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
    MVP
    Jun 08, 2022

    LeLIC2490 Access the Footnote and Endnote dialog via the dialog launcher indicated in yellow in the following screen shot and from the columns dropdown in the Footnote layout section of the dialog, select the required number of columns

     

    • LeLIC2490's avatar
      LeLIC2490
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 09, 2022

      Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP  Thank you so much,

      so simple yet so evasive.

      Once I made them into multiple columns I noticed the the numbers start from the left column to  the right. Is there any way to switch that around and the numbers should start from the right column (for Hebrew or Arabic texts)

       

      Thanks for the help

      • Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP's avatar
        Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
        MVP
        Jun 10, 2022

        LeLIC2490 While the Footnote Text Style can be formatted so that it runs Right to Left,

        I to not know of any way to modify the order of the columns and all that I can suggest is that you used the Feedback facility on the Help tab of the ribbon to make a suggestion for the addition of that ability to the Word application.

         

         

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