The project I’m currently working on uses the MLA Paper template. I’ve been using inspector footnotes throughout my paper, but I can’t get them to compile correctly. I want them all listed on the “Notes” page that was automatically created when I selected the MLA template (after the main content, before the Works Cited).
The bubble on the Notes page says: “Any footnotes you created in your paper will get inserted here upon Compile (this purple bubble will be removed automatically). If you don’t have any footnotes, you can deselect “Include in Compile” for this document in the Inspector or Compile settings, or just delete it completely.” However, when I compile my draft in .docx format without adjusting any of the Footnote & Comments settings, the Notes page is entirely blank, the purple bubble has become a Word comment, and all of my inspector footnotes still appear as standard footnotes (at the bottom of the page they correspond to).
I tried checking the box for “Export inspector footnotes as endnotes” to see if that made a difference, but it just converted all of my notes to standard endnotes that appear at the end of the document (on the Works Cited page). The Notes page was still blank and the bubble was still a comment. I also tried compiling it as a .doc file to see if that changed anything, but it was the same.
I’m not using any inline footnotes, inline comments, or inspector comments. How can I get my notes to show up in the proper place without having to manually edit them all after I’ve compiled my draft?