That is Word's default behavior, Joseph. Likely, your fields just aren't
updating, so you don't notice that these items would renumber properly. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/u...osoft_word.htm
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"JB" wrote in message
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Hello,

I need to revise a paper I wrote with endnotes. However, I just wrote the
number of the note within the text and in the notes section as regular
text.
I.e., I just wrote '1', selected it, then I did Format--Font--Superscript,
and then wrote the content of the note at the end of the paper. I realize
now
I was doing this incorrectly. As I'm revising the document, I will need to
write new paragraphs with new notes in the middle of the paper. Would
there
be any way in which I can have word recognize the existing notes and then
automatically renumber them when I write new ones? Thanks for any help.

Joseph