Basically, I want to (1) change the font size and colour of the text anchor, (2) change the font size and colour of the number in the footnote and (3) change the font size of the footnotes. And this is changing existing footnotes, not starting from a blank sheet.

How to hide MS Word footnotes in a document. Sometimes you want a ‘clean’ version of the document without the clutter of notes. Or maybe the footnotes/endnotes are your own references for sources of information not intended for others to see. Ideally there should be options to print or export to PDF a document with or without the footnotes or endnotes. It’s a common need and feature request that’s been consistently ignored by Microsoft. In the meantime there’s only a workaround. In short, the usual workaround is to change the footnote/endnote styles (i.e.

Styles ‘Footnote Text’ and ‘Endnote Text’) to ‘Hidden’ under the Style settings choose Font then Hidden Text. Note that Word is being tricky here. Strictly speaking only the footnote text should be hidden with the reference numbers remaining (since they are in a different style). However Word detects that you’ve changed the Footnote Text style to Hidden and not only changes that style but also the preceding references and the dividing line. In other words, Microsoft Word developers make the document change to do what you expect (i.e.

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Hide the entire footnote) rather than strictly what you have requested. If the document is only being read on-screen as a Word document (not a PDF) then this might suit you. Hiding endnotes You can hide Endnotes in the same way; by changing the Endnotes Text and Endnotes Reference styles. However you might not need to, if the Endnotes are set to appear at the end of the document.

In that case, just change ‘Endnotes Reference’ style to hidden (to remove the numbering in the document) and insert a page break at the very end of the document text (which will put the Endnotes onto a separate page). Then print / export the entire document up to the last page of the main document but before the endnote pages. See Also • • • • •.