Long footnotes cut off in Pages on Mac

Hello everyone. I am experiencing an issue with the footnote feature in Pages. Specifically, when there is a very long footnote (in my case, 6719 characters), the footnote does not automatically continue onto the next page and is cut off, resulting in lost text. Has anyone else encountered this issue? How can it be resolved? Thank you for your help.



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Original Title: Long footnote

Posted on Aug 19, 2025 04:04 AM

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Aug 19, 2025 04:32 AM in response to Lu-Ri

Pages was not designed to handle what you describe as a several paragraph equivalent in a single footnote character count. This simply invades upward reducing the customary Pages body text area in the document — until it truncates the body text on that page, forcing it onto the next page.


Consider far less content for your footnotes, or from the Footnotes panel, choose Section or Document Endnotes to preserve the body text on the footnoted page.


You can also send feedback to the Pages product team from the application menu.

Long footnotes cut off in Pages on Mac

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