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FinChase - 16 May 2005 21:31 GMT

I am editing a long document that contains footnotes on several pages. I
noticed that one of my footnotes disappeared, so I reinserted it. Later I
found that apparently it did not disappear but moved to a different page--5
pages away. Now it has caused my other footnotes on the page to which it
moved to re-number. I've deleted the footnote but I can't get the footnotes
to re-number correctly. Can anyone help with this? I am going crazy with
this document!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 16 May 2005 23:57 GMT

If you're tracking changes, the footnotes may not renumber properly until
you accept the changes. If that's not relevant, then it may be that you
deleted the footnote but not its reference mark in the text. For information
on making sure the footnote stays where it belongs, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FootnoteOnDiffPage.htm

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> I am editing a long document that contains footnotes on several pages. I
> noticed that one of my footnotes disappeared, so I reinserted it. Later I
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> to re-number correctly. Can anyone help with this? I am going crazy with
> this document!

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FinChase - 17 May 2005 18:23 GMT

Thanks for the response. I am tracking changes. I tried what you suggested
and accepted the change but this did not seem to affect the problem. I
reversed that process and reverted to an earlier version of the document and
rejected the change where I had deleted the footnote. So the extra footnote
is back but it begins with 2. The next footnote after it (which is in
reality, the first reference on this page) is also beginning with 2, so I

> If you're tracking changes, the footnotes may not renumber properly until
> you accept the changes. If that's not relevant, then it may be that you
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> > to re-number correctly. Can anyone help with this? I am going crazy with
> > this document!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 17 May 2005 20:28 GMT

It's possible that your document was converted from WordPerfect. I've seen
this happening with WP conversions, where the WP footnotes look like "real"
Word footnotes but don't behave accordingly. The only recourse in that case
was to recreate them all more or less from scratch (copying the text from
the "fake" footnotes into "real" ones, then deleting the "fake" ones).

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> Thanks for the response. I am tracking changes. I tried what you suggested
> and accepted the change but this did not seem to affect the problem. I
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> > > to re-number correctly. Can anyone help with this? I am going crazy with
> > > this document!

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Daiya Mitchell - 17 May 2005 00:10 GMT

Are you tracking changes?

Did you delete the footnote by selecting the number in the main text and
deleting it?

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