Hello, I know in general footnote numbers go directly after the word but I notice that right after a closing quotation mark, they don't look so great. Interestingly, when I move the footnote number from inside to outside, word creates a space, so I take that's what I should do and the way to avoid how crammed together it looks otherwise. Have you encountered the issue? Thank you.
Following the APA style, they go after any puncutation, so I would imagine they go after the quotation marks.
If you auto insert the footnote number, then there usually isn't a space anyway. Ah, such things remind me of college essays lol.
Like Batgoat said, inserting a footnote doesn't add a space. So there's probably a setting or option enabled that's causing Word to add the extra space.