In Word 2016 for Mac, on the Edit menu, click Find > Advanced Find and Replace. In Word 2013 or Word 2016, press Ctrl + H. Place your cursor at the top of your document, and then open the Advanced Find and Replace dialog box. To find and remove all footnotes or endnotes, use the Find and Replace tool: Remove all footnotes or endnotes from a document As well, if you find an endnote you want to delete, you can right-click it, select Go To Endnote, and delete the number there. To remove the endnote, delete the “i” in the body of the text (the one with the pink box around it in the image above) and that endnote disappears. Removing an endnote works the same way as removing a footnote: Another way you can do this is to right-click the footnote at the bottom of the page, select Go to Footnote and then delete the number there. When you do that, the footnote itself disappears.

If you want to delete the footnote (that’s at the bottom of the page), delete the number “1” in the body.

Here’s an example of a footnote the footnote is at the bottom of the page:

If you delete the footnote or endnote itself, Word renumbers the notes in a new order. Important: It’s the reference number or mark that you delete (in the body of the text), NOT the footnote or endnote itself.

Footnotes and endnotes