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invisible footnotes
Hi folks:
When I cut and paste and delete footnotes, Word seems to leave invisible footnotes where the footnotes were. So, consecutive footnotes (e.g., 3 and 4) may appear with large gaps between them (3 and 6). This goes on from page to page. Reveal formatting, show hidden text, etc., shows nothing but if I GOTO next footnote, it comes to rest where it think a footnote, without a marker, is. If I delete the text around the invisible marker, the footnote seems to jump out of the deleted text, and come to rest near the closest word. I'm sure if Melville were writing about it, it'd be very meta-philosophical and funny, but as it is, it's just really annoying. Any thoughts? |
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Sounds like your document has Track Changes enabled. You
probably need to turn off Track Changes, click on the "Accept All Changes in Document" command on the Reviewing toolbar (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...983881033.aspx and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for more information), and update fields (press Ctrl+A, press F9) before the footnote numbers will appear correctly. jaephyd wrote: Hi folks: When I cut and paste and delete footnotes, Word seems to leave invisible footnotes where the footnotes were. So, consecutive footnotes (e.g., 3 and 4) may appear with large gaps between them (3 and 6). This goes on from page to page. Reveal formatting, show hidden text, etc., shows nothing but if I GOTO next footnote, it comes to rest where it think a footnote, without a marker, is. If I delete the text around the invisible marker, the footnote seems to jump out of the deleted text, and come to rest near the closest word. I'm sure if Melville were writing about it, it'd be very meta-philosophical and funny, but as it is, it's just really annoying. Any thoughts? |
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If you're not using Track Changes (as g-n-o suggests), it could be that
you're deleting the footnotes incorrectly. You don't delete a footnote by deleting the text in the footnote pane or at the bottom of the page; you delete it by deleting the reference mark in the text. -- 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. "jaephyd" wrote in message ... Hi folks: When I cut and paste and delete footnotes, Word seems to leave invisible footnotes where the footnotes were. So, consecutive footnotes (e.g., 3 and 4) may appear with large gaps between them (3 and 6). This goes on from page to page. Reveal formatting, show hidden text, etc., shows nothing but if I GOTO next footnote, it comes to rest where it think a footnote, without a marker, is. If I delete the text around the invisible marker, the footnote seems to jump out of the deleted text, and come to rest near the closest word. I'm sure if Melville were writing about it, it'd be very meta-philosophical and funny, but as it is, it's just really annoying. Any thoughts? |
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Thanks much,
It was indeed the track changes, which tracks the ghosts of footnotes past until we accept them...something very postmodern and therapeutic about this programming oddity. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Sounds like your document has Track Changes enabled. You probably need to turn off Track Changes, click on the "Accept All Changes in Document" command on the Reviewing toolbar (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...983881033.aspx and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for more information), and update fields (press Ctrl+A, press F9) before the footnote numbers will appear correctly. jaephyd wrote: Hi folks: When I cut and paste and delete footnotes, Word seems to leave invisible footnotes where the footnotes were. So, consecutive footnotes (e.g., 3 and 4) may appear with large gaps between them (3 and 6). This goes on from page to page. Reveal formatting, show hidden text, etc., shows nothing but if I GOTO next footnote, it comes to rest where it think a footnote, without a marker, is. If I delete the text around the invisible marker, the footnote seems to jump out of the deleted text, and come to rest near the closest word. I'm sure if Melville were writing about it, it'd be very meta-philosophical and funny, but as it is, it's just really annoying. Any thoughts? |
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