


That’s OK as a one off event but cumbersome if you need to do it regularly. See Hiding footnotes and endnotesĪside from that, your only real choice is to clone the document, delete the footnotes entirely and print/publish the edited clone. This leaves little spaces which can be reduced by changing the ‘Footnote Reference’ style to Font size 1pt (the minimum). The workaround we can think of is to change the ‘Footnote Reference’ to Font | color White (or other background color) instead of Hidden. A reasonable enough request which is difficult to do in Word even without the bug.Īs usual, the Microsoft Knowledge Base has no reference to this despite the passage of many years and doubtless many bug reports to Microsoft. how to print or make a copy of a Word document for distribution without footnotes. We found it while trying to answer a question we’d received from a few readers i.e. We’ve tried this in both Word 2010, Word 2013 all the way up to the latest Word 365 – there’s some minor display variations but essentially it’s the same bug in all releases of Word. The order that you change the styles in makes no difference.
