Yes, I have the footnote numbering on continuous to be applied to the whole
document, but it still restarts numbering every time. I have removed all
section and page breaks and still no luck. It will number consecutively
starting at one even if I put one footnote on page 1 and another on page 99,
so it's not starting over throughout the document, it's just that the entire
document is almost being treated as a new "section".

What would the problem be if it is imported from WordPerfect??