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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
Thank you, Stefan! I had a problem with footnotes, too: I would insert a
new footnote, and, in the footnote pane of the window, the new footnote number would appear in the middle of an old footnote. Stefan's suggestion to rename normal.dot did the trick. Thanks! "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
Glad I could help, and thank you for the feedback.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "micropood" wrote in message ... Thank you, Stefan! I had a problem with footnotes, too: I would insert a new footnote, and, in the footnote pane of the window, the new footnote number would appear in the middle of an old footnote. Stefan's suggestion to rename normal.dot did the trick. Thanks! "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
A different problem with footnotes. In a longish Word (Word/Office 2003)
document with several footnotes and cross references the first few footnotes appear in Print Layout and will print, all the others seem hidden. They show on mouseover and in Normal view. They appear if you change from footnotes to endnotes but are lost again if you go back to footnotes. If you try to add a footnote on the pages with the hidden footnotes it adds the number but doesn't give you anywhere to write at the bottom of the page. What has happened? There are tables in the document, but some footnotes that work are in them; some that don't aren't. Any help would be appreciated -- Opsimath "Stefan Blom" wrote: Glad I could help, and thank you for the feedback. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "micropood" wrote in message ... Thank you, Stefan! I had a problem with footnotes, too: I would insert a new footnote, and, in the footnote pane of the window, the new footnote number would appear in the middle of an old footnote. Stefan's suggestion to rename normal.dot did the trick. Thanks! "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
It might be corruption....you can try the tricks here ON A COPY of the
documents. http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm First, however, if you are Tracking Changes, that causes footnotes to do odd things. Are you? And I assume someone hasn't used hidden text on all the problematic footnotes (in which case the text would have little dots under it when you can see it). On 8/29/06 9:17 AM, "Opsimath" wrote: A different problem with footnotes. In a longish Word (Word/Office 2003) document with several footnotes and cross references the first few footnotes appear in Print Layout and will print, all the others seem hidden. They show on mouseover and in Normal view. They appear if you change from footnotes to endnotes but are lost again if you go back to footnotes. If you try to add a footnote on the pages with the hidden footnotes it adds the number but doesn't give you anywhere to write at the bottom of the page. What has happened? There are tables in the document, but some footnotes that work are in them; some that don't aren't. Any help would be appreciated -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
i tried to do what you said but it still did not work. The footnotes options
isn't highlighted is there a way i can get it to work. there is no error message just doesnt work "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
Look in Tools | Macro | Macros and see if there is a macro named
InsertFootnote or InsertFootnoteNow; if so, it is highjacking the built-in command. Interestingly, this error message has been cited in numerous question threads, but I can't find any in which there was any resolution, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the MSKB about it. The universal suggestion, however, seems to be document corruption. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Janita" wrote in message ... i tried to do what you said but it still did not work. The footnotes options isn't highlighted is there a way i can get it to work. there is no error message just doesnt work "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
thanks for your help its working now
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Look in Tools | Macro | Macros and see if there is a macro named InsertFootnote or InsertFootnoteNow; if so, it is highjacking the built-in command. Interestingly, this error message has been cited in numerous question threads, but I can't find any in which there was any resolution, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the MSKB about it. The universal suggestion, however, seems to be document corruption. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Janita" wrote in message ... i tried to do what you said but it still did not work. The footnotes options isn't highlighted is there a way i can get it to work. there is no error message just doesnt work "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? |
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Footnotes function in Word2003 not working what do I do?
Interestingly, this error message has been cited in numerous
question threads, but I can't find any in which there was any resolution, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the MSKB about it. The universal suggestion, however, seems to be document corruption. Well, the start at number cannot be set outside the legal range even via VBA, so I guess document corruption is the only remaining explanation. :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Look in Tools | Macro | Macros and see if there is a macro named InsertFootnote or InsertFootnoteNow; if so, it is highjacking the built-in command. Interestingly, this error message has been cited in numerous question threads, but I can't find any in which there was any resolution, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the MSKB about it. The universal suggestion, however, seems to be document corruption. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Janita" wrote in message ... i tried to do what you said but it still did not work. The footnotes options isn't highlighted is there a way i can get it to work. there is no error message just doesnt work "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? |
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