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Create a footnote or endnote

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Create a footnote or endnote

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- [Instructor] Footnotes and endnotes serve the same purpose. With footnotes, the notes that you create go to the bottom of the page on which the note occurs. With endnotes, they go at the end of the document, or possibly at the end of the chapter. You have a choice about this, based on how you're creating your document. I'm going to show you how to create footnotes, how to create an endnote, and then, I'll tell you why you might wish to do this. To create a footnote, you simply click where you want the footnote to appear. For example, it says, Changes will be effective on the dates determined by the company, and after those dates, all superseded policies will be null. Well, we actually have a superseded policies site in SharePoint. So if someone needs to go research that, they can actually find those. That's not the point of this paragraph, but there are some people who would ask, how would I go find a superseded policy, perhaps for a disciplinary appeal. To insert a footnote at this…

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