Hello,
I work with word 97. (Yeah, yeah I'm on a tight budgt)
what I wanted to do is to not print the footnotes.

The only way I saw that possible was to place everything
having to do woth the footnotes in hidden text. That was
simple enough (I thuoght). Change the font of the style of
footnote reference and footnote text to 'hidden'.
But three things didn't work out al that well.
1. The reference numbers are hidden in the main document
but not in the footnote (though both have the same style
(with the hidden property on). (But I can work around
that).
2. Tables (which are normally hidden in the main document
together with the text in which they are inserted) are
never hidden. The text of the table is hidden but the
borders are not. I could us the gridlines feature but this
still gives me a blank spot the size of the table. If I
apply the the footnote text style in the main document all
works well (tables are completely hidden). But not in the
footnote itself.
3. Footnotes are preceded by a thin line: can I get rid of
that?

All I want is that the document comes out of the printer
as if their were no footnotes. Maybe this is much easier
possible in another way?

Thanks (in advance)
Bart