footnotes not renumbering

[Greg B]

I'm using Office XP, and I'm separating pages with
section breaks (continuous). On my other Word program
this makes all the numbers restart after the section
break. I did go through the procedure in Word to do
this. Insert > Reference > Footnote. It is set
to "restart each section" and "apply changes to this
section."

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Greg

If you want your footnotes to be numbered so that the numbering
re-starts from 1 at the beginning of each section, then do this. Go to
the top of the document. Insert > Reference > Footnote. In the Numbering
box, choose Restart each section. In the Apply Changes To box, choose
Whole Document. But it looks like you've already done that.

That should start footnotes numbering from 1 for each section. If it
doesn't work, then is it possible that you have tracked changes in the
document? For example, if text containing footnote 1 in a section were
tracked for deletion, the first footnote in that section would appear to
be footnote 2.

To see if you have any tracked changes in the document, View > Toolbars.
Click Reviewing. On the Reviewing toolbar, choose "Final showing markup"
or "Original showing markup". Or use the Previous or Next buttons on
that toolbar to cycle through the tracked changes.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Greg

If you want your footnotes to be numbered so that the numbering
re-starts from 1 at the beginning of each section, then do this. Go to
the top of the document. Insert > Reference > Footnote. In the Numbering
box, choose Restart each section. In the Apply Changes To box, choose
Whole Document. But it looks like you've already done that.

That should start footnotes numbering from 1 for each section. If it
doesn't work, then is it possible that you have tracked changes in the
document? For example, if text containing footnote 1 in a section were
tracked for deletion, the first footnote in that section would appear to
be footnote 2.

To see if you have any tracked changes in the document, View > Toolbars.
Click Reviewing. On the Reviewing toolbar, choose "Final showing markup"
or "Original showing markup". Or use the Previous or Next buttons on
that toolbar to cycle through the tracked changes.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia