Of course, you can manually change your footnote numbers when you’re done writing, but this can be tedious. Difficulty can arise when pasting text that contains footnotes from document to document, although it is rare. If you can give more detail on that, I may be able to advise further. Towards the bottom of the dialog box, where it says Numbering, click on the dropdown. But for our purposes, the important features are choosing whether you’re telling Word about Endnotes or Footnotes and telling Word what the number format should be. The superscript number will appear in the text automatically. This version of Word, according to the ‘About Word’ menu item, is version 14.1.0 of Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. However, you can change from numbers to letters or any other numbering styles.