Document.Footnotes property (Word)

Returns a Footnotes collection that represents all the footnotes in a document. Read-only.

Syntax

expression. Footnotes

expression A variable that represents a Document object.

Remarks

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an object from a collection.

Example

This example changes the footnote reference marks for the footnotes in the active document to lowercase letters, starting with the letter "c".

With ActiveDocument.Footnotes 
 .StartingNumber = 3 
 .NumberStyle = wdNoteNumberStyleLowercaseLetter 
End With

This example inserts an automatically numbered footnote at the insertion point.

Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart 
ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _ 
 Text:="(Lone Creek Press, 1995)"

See also

Document Object

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