[gatekeeper]

Hi All,

I have a document attached where the footnotes randomly skip numbers. For instance after footnote 7, the next footnote is 10.

Also, when you get to footnote 47, it randomly starts renumbering with 2, 3,and 4, then reverts to 52.

I'm aware that the most common cause is Track Changes but Track Changes isn't on in this document. I've also tried section breaks, page breaks, etc. to no avail.

I've attached a section of the document to give you an idea of what's going on. I apologize as it's in zip format. It was too big to upload as a .doc file.

I've tried everything to figure this out and can't. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.

[Peter T. Daniels]

(a) You can't attach attachments to newsgroup postings.

(b) Turn on "Show Hidden Text." It's conceivable that someone thought that a
clever way to get rid of footnotes was to mark them Hidden.

(c) Are you sure they're all real Word footnotes, rather than a superscripted
number and a correspondingly numbered paragraph at the end of the file or the
foot of the page?

(d) If there are Sections, including passages in columns, in the document,
there may be some section-by-section settings you'd have to clear out.

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 4:31:00 PM UTC-4, gatekeeper wrote:
Hi All,

I have a document attached where the footnotes randomly skip numbers.
For instance after footnote 7, the next footnote is 10.

Also, when you get to footnote 47, it randomly starts renumbering with
2, 3,and 4, then reverts to 52.

I'm aware that the most common cause is Track Changes but Track Changes
isn't on in this document. I've also tried section breaks, page breaks,
etc. to no avail.

I've attached a section of the document to give you an idea of what's
going on. I apologize as it's in zip format. It was too big to upload as
a .doc file.

I've tried everything to figure this out and can't. Any help would be
most appreciated. Thanks.


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[gatekeeper]

Thank for the reply. I actually found the answer before I read your response. It turns out that the author's original document did have Track Changes on. After I turned it off, it still didn't number correctly when adding a new footnote.

However, I found a macro which did the trick after I ran it a few times:

pre Dim myFootnote As Footnote
Dim i
For i = ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count To 1 Step -1
Set myFootnote = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i)
myFootnote.Range.Copy
myFootnote.Reference.Select
myFootnote.Delete
ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Selection.Range
Selection.Footnotes(1).Range.Paste
Next i
/pre

[gatekeeper]

Originally Posted by gatekeeper

Thank for the reply. I actually found the answer before I read your response. It turns out that the author's original document did have Track Changes on. After I turned it off, it still didn't number correctly when adding a new footnote.

However, I found a macro which did the trick after I ran it a few times:

pre Dim myFootnote As Footnote
Dim i
For i = ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count To 1 Step -1
Set myFootnote = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i)
myFootnote.Range.Copy
myFootnote.Reference.Select
myFootnote.Delete
ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Selection.Range
Selection.Footnotes(1).Range.Paste
Next i
/pre

One note: for some reason when I posted the macro, the arrow signs were stripped away.

Put a left arrow before "pre" and a right arrow after it. Do the same with "/pre" at the end. Thanks.