renumbering existing footnotes

[pammack]

I have Microsoft Word 2002. I have a document which I wrote in
separate chapters that were separate files, then cut and paste to move
the chapters into a single file. That gives me continuous page
numbering, which I want, but it also continuously numbered the
footnotes. I have changed the setting to restart numbering in each
section and the numbering doesn't change, even when I try adding an
extra footnote at the beginning of a chapter to test the change.
Actually, my manuscript (of about 150 pages) is in chapters that have
subsections, so I want to restart footnote numbers at each chapter, not
at each subsection. I tried moving the footnotes into endnotes and
then back into footnotes, with restart numbering checked, hoping that
would cause the change to go into effect, but the notes stayed
continuously numbered. Is there a way to get Word to convert
continuously numbered footnotes into separately numbered ones?

If not, I don't mind using the separate files for separate chapters,
but it is a pain to have to keep changing the initial page numbers for
each chapter so the pages are continuously numbered (and I would miss
the automatic table of contents). Is there a way to link the files
that would give me continuously numbered pages and automatic table of
content but not continuously numbered footnotes?

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Pam

I have Microsoft Word 2002. I have a document which I wrote in
separate chapters that were separate files, then cut and paste to move
the chapters into a single file. That gives me continuous page
numbering, which I want, but it also continuously numbered the
footnotes. I have changed the setting to restart numbering in each
section and the numbering doesn't change, even when I try adding an
extra footnote at the beginning of a chapter to test the change.

"Section" is a technical term in Word: a document is a collection of
sections (every document has at least 1), a section is a collection of
paragraphs, paragraph consists of characters ...

But Word doesn't "know" that you talk about sections as if they were
chapters until you tell it: you have to insert section breaks/next page
(or: continuous) right before each new chapter.

For a good article to get you started, read:

Working with Sections (by Dave Rado)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

Greetinx
Robert