Footnote problem in Word 2003

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Ed B. - 26 May 2004 12:47 GMT

I am using Word 2003 (part of Office 2003), and when I
try to insert a footnote, using
Insert\Reference\Footnote, the footnote dialog box
doesn't come up. I get a non-superscripted number where
the cursor was located, but no footnote pane shows up
(even in normal view). Any suggestions?

Ed B.

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Herb Tyson [MVP] - 27 May 2004 01:08 GMT

This sounds like normal.dot or registry corruption to me. See if any of the
solutions provided here help (same kinds of problems can cause Word not to
open):

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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> I am using Word 2003 (part of Office 2003), and when I
> try to insert a footnote, using
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Ed B. - 28 May 2004 07:24 GMT

Herb, you're a gem. It was a normal.dot problem. I
followed the instructions provided on the link and it
works great. How do templates get corrupted??

--Ed

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Herb Tyson [MVP] - 29 May 2004 03:36 GMT

Exposure to politicians, usually.

But, seriously... Nobody seems to know. We've had this problem--corruption
of Normal.dot--since the first version of WinWord back when Lincoln was
President (or, at least it seems that long ago).

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