I think I'm going crazy. All I want to do is edit footnotes in a document in Pages on my new Mac Pro. There simply doesn't seem to be any way to access, open or change the footnote once its been entered. The numbering in the body-text is also wierd. I'm stunned that I even have to search for how to do this most basic, common scholarly writing operation
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Hi Jemad55,
Pages 6.0.5 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.1
Triple click on a footnote to select it all. Then you can change font, size or other formatting. Or a triple click then a single click and the cursor is inside the footnote, ready for you to edit the text.
Default footnotes:
After formatting and editing the footnotes (and separately, formatting the numbers in the body text):
Regards,
Ian.
You haven't said what version of Pages you are referring to.
The Pages Footnote format is fixed and can not be altered from what Apple has created.
EndNote is a separate Add On which also adds footnotes and may be more configurable.
Peter
editing footnotes in Pages
