As I live and breathe, Suzanne, I think this solution of yours is going to
work. I tried it out on a couple of footnotes and originally couldn't get the
spacing to correct itself when the switch was made. Then I noticed that the
tracking feature was still on (habits die hard in the editing business).
Turned that off and tried my test again and it works perfectly. Thanks for
suggesting this quicker solution. It only took you and 6 people on our end to
get this straightened out.

Best, Anne

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Well, I recently looked at a document with similar problems (and it *had*
originated in WP), and the solution I proposed (which, it turned out, had
already been implemented by the time the questioner got my answer) was
similar but less trouble. I ascertained that the "fake" footnotes didn't
renumber when one was deleted, and they were distinguished from the "real"
ones by not having a bounding box around the footnote reference mark. So
instead of cutting and pasting the text into another document, you can
actually work very well in the same document, as follows:

1. Before the first footnote reference mark, insert a new footnote
(Ctrl+Alt+F). Word opens the footnote pane with an empty footnote 1; "fake"
footnote 1 will immediately follow it.

2. Select and drag the content of "fake" footnote 1 into "real" footnote 1.

3. Return to the document body and delete the footnote reference mark for
"fake" footnote 1. This will also delete the residue of the fake footnote in
the footnote pane.

4. Repeat 467 times.

FWIW, the document I looked at had 188 footnotes, and this replacement
process reportedly took less than an hour.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Anne at Duke" Anne at wrote in message
...
Nope. MS Word all the way. What we have discovered this afternoon is that
the
problem originated when the document was sent in an e-mail to me (not as
an
attachment, but in the e-mail itself) using the Outlook e-mail system we
have
at the Divinity School at Duke. Our strategy is to cut and paste all of
the
note material into another temp. document, delete the note numbers from
the
text of the master document, and then cut and paste the note text back in
using the "insert footnote" function.

If you have a better idea, we'd love to try it. There are 468 footnotes in
this document.
Thanks, Anne

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Was the paper created in another application (such as WordPerfect) or
using
an add-in such as EndNote?

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Anne at Duke" Anne at wrote in message
news I'm editing a paper using MS Word 2003. The footnotes numbers are in
brackets
that can't be deleted and I can't get them to restart at 1 at the
beginning
of each chapter using the methods on the MS on-line help site. Any
ideas?