Adding Footnotes to Pictures
It’s possible to add footnotes to a photo in Word.
The trick is similar to adding Footnotes to a Word table. Use Endnotes, instead of Footnotes (assuming you don’t use Endnotes elsewhere in the document). Add a Continuous Section Break and change the Endnotes settings to put them at the end of the section.
Here’s the above document with ‘Show All’ on so you can see how it’s done.
And here’s the Endnote settings References | Footnotes | settings.
Set the Numbering to ‘Restart each section’ to force the numbering back to the start for each photo with notes.
No caption
In the above example, we’ve inserted the Endnotes in the caption. If you don’t want that, remove the caption and insert the Endnotes next to the image. Then select the Endnote markers and change the Font formatting to Hidden. This makes the markers invisible but leaves the notes in place and autonumbered.
