Small footnote text after pasting text in

[Paul]

Occasionally I have seen in Word, a footnote being displayed in incredibly
small text. I did nothing (like change the font to .0001 or something like
that) to make it small--this happened on its own. You can see what I'm
talking about in this screenshot:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6050/20090630161554.jpg I got that
image by placing my cursor on the footnote in the text itself. You can see
that Word has no problem displaying the tooltip that has the footnote's
contents, but seems to choke for some reason on the text of the footnote
itself at the bottom of the page. What can I do to avoid or resolve this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Investigate the font formatting of the Footnote Text style; also make sure
that Footnote Reference (which is superscript) has not been applied to the
entire footnote.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Paul]

OK Thanks Suzanne. I just brought that document up and that footnote was in
a normal font, but I know I've seen it before. Might part of the problem
been with my use of the web view (along with Print format)? I dunno. Next
time I see that I check out the font of the footnote itself.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Since Web pages don't have footnotes per se, I would expect the display in
Web Layout view to be different.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Paul]

I noticed this same problem again, and looked this thread up. In fact, the
text of the footnote was not in Footnote Reference, but Footnote Text; but
the view was not the Print. For some reason it was in Draft mode (not sure
why, I never use that--perhaps an inadvertent click some time?). Changing it
to Print mode turned everything around to normal.

 

[Stefan Blom]

In Word, different views may have different zoom levels, which could explain
what you are seeing.

Note that Footnote Reference is a character style used for the actual
footnote number as well as for its reference in the main body of the
document, while Footnote Text is the paragraph style used for footnote text.

You can use Find and Replace to reapply the correct style if necessary.