Footnote problem in Word 2003

[Ed B.]

I am using Word 2003 (part of Office 2003), and when I
try to insert a footnote, using
Insert\Reference\Footnote, the footnote dialog box
doesn't come up. I get a non-superscripted number where
the cursor was located, but no footnote pane shows up
(even in normal view). Any suggestions?

Ed B.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

This sounds like normal.dot or registry corruption to me. See if any of the
solutions provided here help (same kinds of problems can cause Word not to
open):

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

 

[Ed B.]

Herb, you're a gem. It was a normal.dot problem. I
followed the instructions provided on the link and it
works great. How do templates get corrupted??

--Ed

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Exposure to politicians, usually.

But, seriously... Nobody seems to know. We've had this problem--corruption
of Normal.dot--since the first version of WinWord back when Lincoln was
President (or, at least it seems that long ago).