how to add footnotes in word at the top of the page

Type your text in Word, doing the footnotes where you want them. (Sorry if you're on a Mac.but hopefully you can figure out where to find this.) The screen capture below shows the settings from Word 2016 on a Windows 10 PC. You can do this by clicking the dialog box launcher that the black arrow is pointing to below. I don't know how much you know about HTML, but Word is notorious for including some HTML tags that just are not relevant and can do odd things when introduced into Canvas.įirst: in Word, make sure that you set the References tab so that you are using endnotes (not footnotes-keep reading!) and that the endnotes are using the regular numeric format rather than lower-case roman numerals like Word will do for endnotes by default. (And a separate note: it's not a bad idea to learn to type your Discussion replies in Word first before posting in Canvas, anyway, just to avoid any potential accidents when writing a long reply!) However, the less formatting in Word the better. But it's not quite perfect when it comes to using superscripts with footnotes. Thanks for your acknowledgement that you know how to do this in Word, because that will help! And believe it or not, Canvas does a very good job with copying/pasting footnoted text from a Word document and pasting it into the rich content editor that students have when replying to a discussion. Hi Welcome to the worldwide Canvas Community! I see you joined the Community back in January but that this is your first post here.

How to add footnotes in word at the top of the page