Changing Footnote Numbering

In Word, footnotes can be automatically numbered from 1 through the number of footnotes in the document. Thus, if your document contains 14 footnotes, they will be numbered 1 through 14. You can change the way footnotes are numbered, however. Word allows you to specify both a starting footnote number and whether the numbering starts over with each new section in your document.

Word allows you to change how it handles footnote numbering:

1. Make sure the References tab is selected on the ribbon.
2. Click the small down-ward pointing arrow at the lower-right corner of the Footnotes group. Word displays the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. Make sure the Footnotes radio button is selected.
4. Change the Start At value to reflect where you want Word to start numbering.
5. Change the Numbering area to reflect how you want Word to count your footnotes.
6. Click on Apply and then Cancel; otherwise click Insert to add a footnote mark at the current document location.