1, the display position is different.
(1) Footnotes are usually located at the bottom of the page and can be used as comments on the contents of the document.
(2) endnotes are generally located at the end of the document, listing the source of quotations, etc.
(3) The footer is located at the bottom of the Word page, and its position will not change because of the change of the text content.
2. Different components
(1) Footnotes and endnotes are composed of two related parts, including comment reference marks and their corresponding comment text.
(2) The footer generally has the page number of the current page, which is convenient for readers to browse and find quickly according to the directory, and can also add the information mentioned in the header.
3. Different functions
(1) Footnotes and endnotes are supplementary explanations to the text.
(2) Footer can be used to set a unified document display format, and information can be added in batches at a fixed position on each page.
4. Different adding methods
(1) Footnotes and endnotes are added to the Word References tab.
(2) Add a footer by selecting it in the Insert tab.
meaning
Footnote is a Chinese word that can be attached to the bottom of the article page to explain something and printed at the bottom of the page. Footnotes and endnotes are supplementary explanations to the text. Footnotes are generally located at the bottom of the page and can be used as comments on the contents of the document; Endnotes are generally located at the end of the document, listing the source of quotations, etc.
Examples and detailed explanations
Guo Moruo's Continuation of Literary Works Dancing on the Table: I found this interesting sentence quoted in the footnote of Das Kapital. Postscript of Ba Jin's Selected Works of Ba Jin: But after a year, I still took some useless postscripts as footnotes of an essay and stuffed them into the tenth volume of my collection.
Footnotes and endnotes are composed of two related parts, including annotation reference marks and their corresponding annotation texts. Users can use Word to automatically number labels or create custom labels. When you add, delete, or move automatically numbered annotations, Word renumbers the annotation reference marks.