
Armed with that information, I opened a new Word document, added some text and inserted some footnotes into it. The Quora post alerted me to something I wasn’t aware of-there’s a special wildcard symbol for footnotes: ^2. Doing it manually in the body of the document and in the footnote area wasn’t going to work as there were hundreds of them. He’d done some testing and had found a Quora post ( ) that detailed how to get rid of them, but couldn’t figure out how to add them automatically. M contacted me and asked how he could change the footnote numbers in his dissertation from unadorned superscripted numbers to those same numbers but with parentheses around them.

Warning: I don’t use footnotes, and my authors rarely use them so footnotes and endnotes are not something I’m familiar with in Word.
