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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 footn...
BrettDes Can you upload a copy of the document so that we can investigate the issue.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVPhere is a link to the file. Word problem file
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.
- the footnotes were generated by Word. I created the footnotes style so I did not mess with the footnotes text. This style gives me the proper font size and indentation. I wanted the original style to stay in Word. There has to be some reason that Word completely lost track of what the numbers were in the footnotes section. As it stands, i will most likely just have to recreate the document as I am using Endnote as a citations manager.
Sometimes, opening the document in some other word processor, such as LibreOffice Writer, may fix issues such as broken footnotes. Note that frequently editing a document in different word processors may also cause these types of troubles.
Experiment a bit on a copy of the original document. Open it in LibreOffice, save in the *.otf format and then save back to *.docx. Then open the resulting file in Word and see if there is some improvement.
Again, moving the document between different word processors may contribute to formatting issues, so it should be used with care.
