When characters appear as empty boxes, the cause could be a damaged font,
although I would expect Word to replace the missing font with some other,
available font. Are the footnote symbols supposed to be numeric characters
or symbols such as †?
The other "issue" is a lot more straightforward, fortunately. You are seeing
field codes instead of field results. Press Alt+F9 to redisplay field
results (meaning hyperlinks instead of HYPERLINK field codes and page
numbers instead of PAGE number fields).
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"axiomcrs" wrote in message
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I have a rather large document with over 2500 footnotes and various
hyperlinks and each page containing a number. Somehow all of these have
changed for the worse. The footnotes now are no longer simply numbered
starting at 1 for each page. The text for each footnote is correct and
choosing the menu option to Go To Footnote works. The problem is the
superscript appears as a strange character. It looks like an empty box.
The first footnote on the page gets 1 empty box and second footnote
gets 2 empty boxes. Attempting to renumber the footnotes using numbers
does nothing. The empty boxes don't change to numbers. The document
was created and is modified in Word 2003, but the same effect appears in
Word 2010, albeit, with different characters.
Just in case this is helpful in solving the footnote issue, a similar
issue is occurring with hyperlinks and the bottom of the page page
numbers as footer. The hyperlinks now look like this: HYPERLINK
"http://www.pamunkeydavenport.com" http://www.pamunkeydavenport.com .
This posting shows the previous sentence with the hyperlink appearing in
blue. In the document, the hyperlink does not appear in blue. The
strange characters are, 2 exclamation points preceding the word
HYPERLINK and a paragraph symbol appearing between .com and http, and an
upside down T after the second .com. These special characters do not
show up after I cut and pasted from the document. The footer page
numbers also are not correct. They look like this: - PAGE 11 - with the
same special characters added in just like the hyperlinks.
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axiomcrs