

Word has no built-in way to handle such instances. The real "sticky wicket" comes into play if you need footnotes in your document, separate footnotes in your table, and endnotes at the end of the document. With the section break right after the table (as noted in the previous paragraph), the endnotes will appear immediately after the table, and any footnotes on the page will appear in the proper place at the bottom of the page. The footnotes should be formatted to appear at the bottom of each page, and the endnotes should be formatted to appear at the end of each section. If you have a need for footnotes in regular text and in your table, you can simply use regular footnotes for your document text and endnotes for the footnotes in your table. This approach only works if you have footnotes in your table and don't have any in the regular document text on that page. (Click on the Options button in the Footnotes and Endnotes dialog box to see this option.) For some documents, you may be able to achieve the desired result by inserting a continuous section break immediately after the table and making sure your footnotes are inserted in the table using the "Beneath Text" setting for the Place At option. Some formatting guidelines, however, require that footnotes for tables be handled specially-namely, that the footnote not appear with the regular text footnotes, but at the end of the table in which the footnote marker appears. The footnotes then appear in the regular place, at the bottom of the page, along with your other footnotes.


You can place footnote markers at any place within your document, including within tables. How you use footnotes in Word has been covered in detail in other issues of WordTips. Many scholarly documents and research papers require the extensive use of footnotes.
