Deleted footnote

[George Wilson]

I am assisting a customer using Word 2000 on a Windows
2000 system. He deleted a footnote and the rest of his
footnotes did not renumber themselves. The footnote
appears to still be there, no text or content remain but
the footnote line/divider is still at the foot of the
page. Did a find on footnotes and it is not found. Tried
accepting changes on the page and this does not help
either. I can go to the footnote placing my cursor at the
paragraph marker where the footnote should be under the
footnote divider, right click and go to footnote. Word is
still counting it as a footnote as far as numbering goes
but find skips right over it. Does anyone have any ideas
how to remove the footnote?
TIA
George

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The only way I can think of for this to happen is if the user deleted
the footnote by selecting the footnote text at the bottom of the page
and deleted it, which is not the correct way to delete a footnote. The
correct way to delete a footnote is to select the footnote reference in
the text and delete that, which will automatically delete the
corresponding footnote text at the bottom of the page and renumber the
remaining footnotes. See if there is a footnote reference in the text
with the number of the supposedly deleted footnote.

 

[CarlS]

I'm having the same (extremely frustrating problem) and
I'm fairly certain that the footnotes I deleted were
deleted properly. I've copied text from the deleted
footnotes and pasted the text into other sections of my
document, but have deleted the footnote by deleting the
footnote reference in the text. I'm wondering if some
part of the problem could be related to use of the "track
changes" option.

In the past when I've had this problem (I've encountered
it on several occasions), I've sometimes been able to
convert the footnotes to endnotes and then convert them
back with correct numbering. But not in this case.

Any further guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

If you are tracking changes, the footnote numbers will not sort themselves
out until you Accept All Changes.

DM