Inserting notes

Footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes are inserted into documents using the Notes panel.

Upon inserting a note:

  1. A reference is added at the insertion point.
  2. Space for a note body is allocated at an appropriate position for the note's type.
  3. The insertion point is moved to the note body's position so you can enter text.

Note order and serialisation

Affinity Publisher automatically determines which reference is used to label a note, based on its position relative to other notes of the same type.

The correct serialisation is maintained when new notes are inserted, or existing notes are moved or deleted.

For example, inserting an endnote between endnotes labelled 3 and 4 will result in the references of endnotes 4 and higher to be incremented by 1, and the new endnote's reference will be 4.

Insert Note To insert a footnote, sidenote or endnote:
  1. Position the insertion point where you want the note's reference to be.
  2. On the Notes panel, select the required type: Footnotes, Sidenotes or Endnotes.
  3. Click Insert Note. The document view will refocus on the newly created note body.
  4. Type the note body's text.
To delete a footnote, sidenote or endnote:
  1. Do one of the following:
    • Position the insertion point after the note's reference in story text.
    • Select the note's reference.
  2. Press the to delete the reference and corresponding note body.

Navigating notes

The Notes panel allows you to instantly refocus the document view from a note's reference to its corresponding body, or vice versa.

Go to Body To move from a note's reference to its body:
  1. In the story text, position the insertion point next to the reference or make a text selection that includes the reference.
  2. On the Notes panel, click Go to Body.
Go to Reference To move from a note's body to its reference:
  1. Position the insertion point or make a text selection within the note body.
  2. On the Notes panel, click Go to Reference.

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