Glad I could help.

Apparently, your document was (slightly) corrupt and recreating the
contents in a blank document fixed that.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Margaret Howells" wrote in message
...
Stefan, thank you. Saving the original document into normal.dot
allowed me
to insert the footnotes. Thank you very much you have save my
life!!!!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

First test if a new blank document allows you to insert footnotes.
If
it does, you know that the problem is with your specific document.

Then try the following: Display formatting marks. To do this,
click
the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar. Paragraph marks will display
as
¶ symbols. Now, copy the entire document, except for the final
paragraph mark, and paste it into your newly created document.
Save
it. Inserting footnotes should work correctly again.

Note: If you cannot create footnotes (without the error message)
from
a blank document, you need to rename normal.dot and have Word
create a
new, fresh copy for you.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Margaret Howells" wrote in message
...
I am trying to insert footnote reference in a word document and
keep
getting
the message Start At must be between 1 and 16383 for this
format.
In the
Insert, Reference box I have inserted footnote, bottom of page,
start at 1 -
why is this not working, what am I doing wrong?