Problem editing footnotes and endnotes

[JBB]

With Word 2004, I could click on a footnote or endnote in draft view and have Word take me directly to the bottom of the page so that I could edit the relevant footnote. With Word 2008 I can't. Now I have to go to view, footnotes, then select endnotes. It's very cumbersome. Is there some faster way?

I also used to be able to double click on a word and have the word automatically high light. No more. Sigh.

John

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi John,

I can't reproduce that--both of those actions work here. Not sure what
could be causing your problem.

Re #1--when I double click on a footnote number in Draft view, the
footnote pane opens up. Same for endnotes.
For #2, check the Preferences | Edit settings.

Can someone else test also? My machine is a bit customized.

Daiya

 

[jefffish]

Hi, I'm having the same problem that John is having. This is strange.
I can't find any solution so far.
Jeff

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

John was having two problems. Which are you seeing? What version of
Word are you using?

I still can't reproduce either one, and my machine is no longer customized.

Diagnostic tricks to help locate the cause of the problem:

1) Log out of your user account, then hold down shift while logging back
in. If the problem disappears, it is probably due to some conflict with
the login items/utilities in your user account.

2) create a new user account in OS X and test in that one. If the
problem disappears, then the installation is fine but some user-specific
file has corrupted.