Footnote Numbering Problems

[Ginger]

Aaarrrrgggghhhh!!! I have been working with a document
with 40+ footnotes and I am trying to insert/renumber them
so they calculate by 1 each time and it keeps going from
21 to 24 and I can't seem to make it do 22. I have been
trying everything and I can't seem to make it work right.

Is there a way to start at the very beginning of the
document and have word just renumber the footnotes to what
it thinks they should be, or am I just out of luck?

Any suggestions on how to fix my document would be gladly
appreciated.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

The numbering is auto-generated by Word, right, you aren't entering it
manually?

If you are tracking changes, the numbers will straighten themselves out
after you have accepted all changes.

DM

 

[Ginger]

After I accepted the changes it never fixed the numbering
problem. Then what I am trying to do is remove all
footnotes (using the find/replace feature the help screen
said to do) and putting them in by scratch again in order
hoping that it will work, but once again when I get to
number 21 the next number that came up is 23. I am going
crazy!

Any other ideas?? Please!!

Thanks,
Ginger

 

[Klaus Linke]

but once again when I get to number 21 the next

number that came up is 23. I am going crazy!

Hi Ginger,

What happens if you "Edit > Goto: Footnote 22"?

Klaus

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Ginger:

No: The cause is almost certainly that you have a stranded Footnote
Reference in the text that you can't find.

You know roughly where it is: it's between the footnote reference for 21 and
23 (or 24).

Create a trash document, cut that section of text out and drop it into the
trash document and save that, then save and re-open your main document.

Your footnotes should now number correctly (with three missing).

Now paste half the cut text back in place. If the problem comes back, it's
in the text you pasted. If it doesn't, it's in the text you DIDN'T paste.

Keep pasting half the remainder in until the problem comes back.

Now you know within a few paragraphs where the problem is. Cut those
paragraphs out, and paste them into the trash document using Edit>Paste
Special> Text only. This strips everything except the characters out of the
text.

Now, copy the stuff you have just pasted in the trash document, and paste it
back into the main document. This time, it's clean. You will have to
reapply your styles then re-insert presumably only one bad footnote.

Hope this helps

After I accepted the changes it never fixed the numbering
problem. Then what I am trying to do is remove all
footnotes (using the find/replace feature the help screen
said to do) and putting them in by scratch again in order
hoping that it will work, but once again when I get to
number 21 the next number that came up is 23. I am going
crazy!

Any other ideas?? Please!!

Thanks,
Ginger

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