I am working on a document which already has footnotes entered. Some of the
footnotes seem to be manually entered. As a result, the footnotes are
numbered incorrectly. However, when I try to make changes, the numbering of
the footnotes is wrong. It skips two or three numbers. How can I fix this?

You'll need to delete the manually entered footnotes, and reenter
them using the Insert-Reference-Footnote command. And if you
are tracking changes in the document, you might have to accept
all tracked changes, press Ctrl+A to select the whole document,
and press F9 to update fields before the footnote numbers are
correct.

Jennifer wrote:

I am working on a document which already has footnotes entered. Some of the
footnotes seem to be manually entered. As a result, the footnotes are
numbered incorrectly. However, when I try to make changes, the numbering of
the footnotes is wrong. It skips two or three numbers. How can I fix this?