endnotes and pagination- the sequel

[angie.sauer94]

Two days ago I posted a question on why a Word document starts "hyper-
pagination" (i.e. adds thousands of empty pages between text and
endnote page). I got some good advice on how to fix the offending
paragraph that started the problem. However, after doing so, the
problem reoccurred elsewhere. The origin SEEMS to be any endnote that
is longer than three lines. Does anybody know anything about this? How
do I get around it?

 

[angie.sauer94]

Two days ago I posted a question on why a Word document starts "hyper-
pagination" (i.e. adds thousands of empty pages between text and
endnote page). I got some good advice on how to fix the offending
paragraph that started the problem. However, after doing so, the
problem reoccurred elsewhere. The origin SEEMS to be any endnote that
is longer than three lines. Does anybody know anything about this? How
do I get around it?

CORRECTION!
After experimenting some more, I am now thinking the problem does not
have anything to do with the length of any individual endnote but
happens at the point when the total text of endnotes exceeds one page,
i.e. the moment I have more endnotes than can fit on one page, the
pagination goes crazy. Is there some option that I have to choose to
allow Word to start the next page of endnotes?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Angie,

Hyper-pagination (good word) is a classic sign of corruption. John only
gave you one fix for corruption. I'd try the Round-trip through HTML
fix, directions here (under Procedure #1)
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

I'm guessing the doc has more corruption than you found in the first attack.

Lots and lots of academics use MacWord to produce document with long
endnotes and endnotes that go over one page, without problems, so it's
unlikely there's an intrinsic issue with either of those.

Daiya

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Angie:

Daiya will be along in a minute, she is our endnote specialist.

There is nothing particularly wrong with endnotes: they work.

Did you "Maggie" it (de-corrupt the document by copying all but the last
paragraph mark)?

Your symptoms are classic for a corrupted list template (a corrupted
document...)

List templates are part of the internal structure of the document. They
format numbers (e.g. End note numbers). If they corrupt, you get these
strange problems that move around the document.

A Maggie fixes it.

Cheers

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Two days ago I posted a question on why a Word document starts "hyper-
pagination" (i.e. adds thousands of empty pages between text and
endnote page). I got some good advice on how to fix the offending
paragraph that started the problem. However, after doing so, the
problem reoccurred elsewhere. The origin SEEMS to be any endnote that
is longer than three lines. Does anybody know anything about this? How
do I get around it?

CORRECTION!
After experimenting some more, I am now thinking the problem does not
have anything to do with the length of any individual endnote but
happens at the point when the total text of endnotes exceeds one page,
i.e. the moment I have more endnotes than can fit on one page, the
pagination goes crazy. Is there some option that I have to choose to
allow Word to start the next page of endnotes?


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[CyberTaz]

Hi Angie -

Just another voice in the crowd echoing what John & Daiya have already
offered. As far as the reliability of the footnotes/endnotes: I've
repeatedly seen legal opinions written in Word which were no more than 2-3
pages but contained numerous footnotes & endnotes many of which were several
pages in and of themselves.