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footnote numbers skip
I have a friend who created a lengthy document with four footnotes. The
first three numbered correctly, but the last is numbered 10. There are no other footnotes in the document. He is using Word 2003. I don't know if there has been cutting and pasting from other resources. Could that be the problem? He'd like to get the last footnote to number as 4. There doesn't seem to be a way to manually number them and the section break, page number doesn't seem to help control the number for the last footnote. If we ask to start with a different number, it changes everything and still leaves a gap. |
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If your friend is using track changes, the numbers will not fix themselves
until all changes have been Accepted. Was the doc originally created in Word? Has he tried deleting the last footnote (by deleting the reference number in the text, after copying the text to a different doc) and recreating it? On 1/6/05 11:09 AM, "Willibus" wrote: I have a friend who created a lengthy document with four footnotes. The first three numbered correctly, but the last is numbered 10. There are no other footnotes in the document. He is using Word 2003. I don't know if there has been cutting and pasting from other resources. Could that be the problem? He'd like to get the last footnote to number as 4. There doesn't seem to be a way to manually number them and the section break, page number doesn't seem to help control the number for the last footnote. If we ask to start with a different number, it changes everything and still leaves a gap. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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PS. Another poster just pointed out that using Edit | Go To found invisible
footnotes, which he eliminated by cutting the para and repasting it as unformatted text. On 1/6/05 12:43 PM, "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: If your friend is using track changes, the numbers will not fix themselves until all changes have been Accepted. Was the doc originally created in Word? Has he tried deleting the last footnote (by deleting the reference number in the text, after copying the text to a different doc) and recreating it? On 1/6/05 11:09 AM, "Willibus" wrote: I have a friend who created a lengthy document with four footnotes. The first three numbered correctly, but the last is numbered 10. There are no other footnotes in the document. He is using Word 2003. I don't know if there has been cutting and pasting from other resources. Could that be the problem? He'd like to get the last footnote to number as 4. There doesn't seem to be a way to manually number them and the section break, page number doesn't seem to help control the number for the last footnote. If we ask to start with a different number, it changes everything and still leaves a gap. |
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Thank you for the information you posted. I won't actually know if it helps
until I pass it on. I did find out that I can renumber the stray footnote by selecting the number in the body of the text and clicking on it. Then in the error message click options and on the dialog box select Custom Mark and type the number I want it to be. That doesn't answer why it happened, but it does solve the problem for the one instance. If your information answers why he had problems it will help him avoid it in the first place. He does use track changes so that may be what is wrong. Thanks again. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: PS. Another poster just pointed out that using Edit | Go To found invisible footnotes, which he eliminated by cutting the para and repasting it as unformatted text. On 1/6/05 12:43 PM, "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: If your friend is using track changes, the numbers will not fix themselves until all changes have been Accepted. Was the doc originally created in Word? Has he tried deleting the last footnote (by deleting the reference number in the text, after copying the text to a different doc) and recreating it? On 1/6/05 11:09 AM, "Willibus" wrote: I have a friend who created a lengthy document with four footnotes. The first three numbered correctly, but the last is numbered 10. There are no other footnotes in the document. He is using Word 2003. I don't know if there has been cutting and pasting from other resources. Could that be the problem? He'd like to get the last footnote to number as 4. There doesn't seem to be a way to manually number them and the section break, page number doesn't seem to help control the number for the last footnote. If we ask to start with a different number, it changes everything and still leaves a gap. |
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