Hi Macropod, thank you for the code, unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work using Ctrl Alt F.

Hi Greg, thank you for the code, I really appreciate it. I have added .Characters(1).Font.Size = 8 to bring the font size down from 10 to 8 and it seems to be working as I wanted it to without changing the actual style in the styles pane. Thank you so much.

Well, you didn't ask for that. To achieve that, all you need to do is add 'Now' to the macro's name.

Whilst you might be happy with Greg's code, do be aware that it will lead to an unnecessary increase in file size compared to the once-off Style modifications. And, if you made those once-off Style modifications in Word's Normal Template, you'd likely never need to bother with them again. Plus, your documents will be less prone to corruption if you modify the Styles than if you use Greg's brute-force approach to modifying each footnote's formatting.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you Macropod for pointing out any issues that may arise with the other code, as it may become an issue on our larger 200 page documents with hundreds of footnotes within them.