FOOTNOTE HELL!!!!

[Jayne]

Help! I have been working on a long document in
Microsoft Word (45 single space pages so far, with 150
footnotes) and my footnotes are completely screwed up.
What started out as a great program with automated
footnote renumber whenever I added something has become
an absolute nightmare. Some footnotes skip (for example,
my document goes from footnote 47 to 53) and some are
missing altogether. Does anyone know how to fix this????

Thanks very much.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you tracking changes? Have you deleted any footnotes without deleting
the reference marks?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Jayne]

I think I have been tracking changes - how does that
affect the footnotes, and more importantly, how can I fix
this????

Thanks so much for your help - I am desperate!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you turn off Track Changes and Accept All Changes in Document, do the
numbers straighten out?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Without seeing the document, it's hard to troubleshoot, but here's something
else to try:

1. Display the vertical scroll bar if it isn't already displayed (check box
on the View tab of Tools | Options).

2. At the bottom of the scroll bar there are two double arrows with a button
between them.

3. Click on the button to open the Select Browse Object palette, mouse over
the palette till you find Browse by Footnote, and click on it.

4. Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar (or press Ctrl+*)
to display nonprinting characters, including Hidden text, in case some of
the footnote reference marks have been formatted as Hidden.

5. Starting at the top of the document, click the down arrow button to skip
from footnote to footnote; in this way you may find some of the reference
marks for footnotes that aren't showing up in the footnote pane.

If this isn't helpful, try converting the footnotes to endnotes and back
again. It's a long shot, but it might straighten out the numbering (as you
can see, I'm grasping at straws here).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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