Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.

If you need numbered paragraphs in a Microsoft Word doc, don’t resort to entering them manually. Instead, create a custom style. Susan Harkins will show you how.

You can insert a footnote or endnote in Word from the References tab of the ribbon. Both serve as supplemental information to your document.

NOTE: When you add the numbers to the beginning of your paragraphs, Word may convert the paragraphs into a numbered list.

You can add page numbers in Word to the header or footer sections of a document using the page numbers option in the Insert menu.