<p>In the <ahref="https://www.onlyoffice.com/document-editor.aspx"target="_blank"onclick="onhyperlinkclick(this)"><b>Document Editor</b></a>, you can insert footnotes to add explanations or comments for certain sentences or terms used in your text, make references to the sources, etc.</p>
click the arrow next to the <imgalt="Footnote icon"src="../images/addfootnote.png"/><b>Footnote</b> icon and select the <b>Insert Footnote</b> option from the menu,
<p>The footnote mark (i.e. the superscript character that indicates a footnote) appears in the text of the document, and the insertion point moves to the bottom of the current page.</p>
<p>Repeat the above mentioned operations to add subsequent footnotes for other text passages in the document. The footnotes are numbered automatically.</p>
<p>To easily navigate through the added footnotes in the text of the document,</p>
<ol>
<li>click the arrow next to the <imgalt="Footnote icon"src="../images/addfootnote.png"/><b>Footnote</b> icon on the <b>References</b> tab located at the top toolbar,</li>
<li>in the <b>Go to Footnotes</b> section, use the <imgalt="Previous footnote icon"src="../images/previousfootnote.png"/> arrow to go to the previous footnote or the <imgalt="Next footnote icon"src="../images/nextfootnote.png"/> arrow to go to the next footnote.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Editing footnotes</h2>
<p>To edit the footnotes settings,</p>
<ol>
<li>click the arrow next to the <imgalt="Footnote icon"src="../images/addfootnote.png"/><b>Footnote</b> icon on the <b>References</b> tab located at the top toolbar,</li>
<li>select the <b>Notes Settings</b> option from the menu,</li>
<li>
change the current parameters in the <b>Notes Settings</b> window that will appear:
<li><b>Number Format</b> - select the necessary number format from the available ones: <em>1, 2, 3,...</em>, <em>a, b, c,...</em>, <em>A, B, C,...</em>, <em>i, ii, iii,...</em>, <em>I, II, III,...</em>.</li>
<li><b>Start at</b> - use the arrows to set the number or letter you want to start numbering with.</li>
<li>
<b>Numbering</b> - select a way to number your footnotes:
<ul>
<li><b>Continuous</b> - to number footnotes sequentially throughout the document,</li>
<li><b>Restart each section</b> - to start footnote numbering with 1 (or another specified character) at the beginning of each section,</li>
<li><b>Restart each page</b> - to start footnote numbering with 1 (or another specified character) at the beginning of each page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Custom Mark</b> - set a special character or a word you want to use as the footnote mark (e.g. * or Note1). Enter the necessary character/word into the text entry field and click the <b>Insert</b> button at the bottom of the <b>Notes Settings</b> window.</li>
</ul>
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Use the <b>Apply changes to</b> drop-down list if you want to apply the specified notes settings to the <b>Whole document</b> or the <b>Current section</b> only.
<pclass="note"><b>Note</b>: to use different footnotes formatting in separate parts of the document, you need to add <ahref="../UsageInstructions/SectionBreaks.htm"onclick="onhyperlinkclick(this)">section breaks</a> first.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>When you finish, click the <b>Apply</b> button.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Removing footnotes</h2>
<p>To remove a single footnote, position the insertion point directly before the footnote mark in the text and press <b>Delete</b>. Other footnotes will be renumbered automatically.</p>
<p>To delete all the footnotes in the document,</p>
<ol>
<li>click the arrow next to the <imgalt="Footnote icon"src="../images/addfootnote.png"/><b>Footnote</b> icon on the <b>References</b> tab located at the top toolbar,</li>
<li>select the <b>Delete All Notes</b> option from the menu.</li>
<li>choose the <b>Delete All Footnotes</b> option in the appeared window and click <b>OK</b>.</li>