Designers and production editors use a manuscript’s word count to estimate how many pages the published book will be, taking into account how they want it to look: how large the pages will be, how much white space is wanted, whether illustrations will add to the page count, etc.

Page counts, on the other hand, are for printed books. Thrillers, graphic novels, romances-their editors all have target ranges for the length of book readers expect. An editor acquiring young-adult fantasy novels will consider anything from about 80,000 words and up. A picture book editor might think in terms of 0–750 words. An appropriate word count for a project depends on the kind of book. In the footnote/endnote view, click Format Footnotes or Format Endnotes to display the Format Options dialog, where you can change the size, font, and indentation of one or all of your footnotes or endnotes.Long before a book is printed, while the text is still in manuscript form, editors at publishing houses speak in terms of word count, not page count. Word inserts a reference mark in the text and adds the endnote mark at the end of the document.Ĭlick the reference number or mark in the body of the text or click Insert > Show Footnotes (for endnotes, click Insert > Show Endnotes ). Word inserts a reference mark in the text and adds the footnote mark at the bottom of the page. If you’re in Reading View, switch to Editing View by clicking Edit Document > Edit in Word for the web.Ĭlick where you want to add the footnote. Usually, footnotes appear at the bottom of the page, while endnotes come at the end of the document or section. Use footnotes and endnotes to explain, comment on, or provide references to something in a document.

Word footnotes on multiple pages