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BrettDes
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Aug 02, 2023

Footnote issues in word

When I insert a footnote into a document, the footnotes renumber in the text of the document, however, they do not renumber in the footnote area of the document.  If I insert a footnote between footnotes 14 and 15 in my text, the text footnotes will read 14, 15, 16. However, the footnotes at the bottom of the page will ready 14, 15, 15 . . .

I have already tried copying and pasting this rather long document into another document (did not fix the problem).

I have already tried several other techniques from searching online and none of them have worked.  If I start a completely new document, the footnotes work correctly. So there has to be some setting in this rather long (30 or so pages) document that is creating the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

      • BrettDes What was the source of the document and of the original footnotes?

         

        The "footnotes" in the document are in a "footnotes" style

        rather that in the default "footnote text" style

        When, via the Footnote and Endnote dialog, I change the format of the numbering from 1, 2, 3, ... to i, ii, iii, ..., it is only to the Footnote that I added that the format of the number is changed.

        It appears that the only way to fix it properly will be to reinsert the footnotes.

         

        It would however be possible to correct the numbering by accessing the footnotes.xml component of the file and manually changing the numbers taht appear there, but that will not really fix the problem.

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      BrettDes
      Copper Contributor
      Just to be clear, how would you suggest I upload the document? There does not seem to be an option anywhere for that to happen.
      • BrettDes 

         

        If you are seeing the Quick Reply box (see example below), click in the box and then click the Open full text editor link to see options for uploading files.

         

         

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      BrettDes
      Copper Contributor
      Doug,
      It is probably staring me in the face, but I cannot seem to find the upload command here. I will gladly send a portion of the document that has the trouble in order to get this problem fixed.

      Brett

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