Footnote Creates an Additional Footer

[Matt T]

Weird Word 2003 problem in one document. When I insert a footnote, I get an
additional complete footer above the footnote, which is itself above the
standard document footer. This additional footer is from a previous
document. I can't select the additional footer in either doc editing mode or
header/footer editing mode. Text flows gracefully around the additional
footer, but I can't find a way to delete this. Have tried export to XML and
back, no change.
Do I have a corrupt template?

 

[Stefan Blom]

I've never seen anything like this before. You'd better treat the document
as corrupt. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have seen a similar issue reported before, but I don't recall that any
diagnosis or solution was achieved.

 

[Matt T]

Susan and Stephan,

Removing the footnotes removes the phantom footer, so that is a workaround
of sorts.

Re document corruption, I have tried a couple of the format-preserving
corruption removal processes on MVPS.org, including transfer to/from XML, and
transfer to/from RTF. I have also tried removing section breaks in the
document, as well as recreating normal.dot, to no avail.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'd be interested in seeing a sample of this problem document.