MS Word displaying page number before certain words

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Dear All,&nbsp;Today I encountered something very strange with a Word document that I am still struggling to understand. Namely, I figured out that Word had inserted the page number before certain words in a document. It is in fact a non-printable item and when pasted as value, it is gone. My wild guess would be that the said words might have also been subject to spelling check by Word at some point. The problematic file itself is used by more than 30 people, with different language settings. Visually, it is as follows:&nbsp;Could you please advise where are these numbers coming from and how can I remove them in bulk? Your help is appreciated!&nbsp;

lenka_kerumova · Answer

Hello&nbsp;Radoslav_Vladimirov&nbsp;,without seeing the entire document I can only guess. It appears as if the page number is in a box and that the properties of the box allow text to overflow the page-number box.&nbsp;Can you click on the page-number and move it?

stefan_blom · Answer

Radoslav_Vladimirov&nbsp;
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Is the issue specific to that one document? Or can you reproduce it in other documents as well?
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If the issue can be observed in other documents, does it occur in conjunction with specific actions (editing, printing, etc.)?

lenka_kerumova · Answer

Radoslav_Vladimirov&nbsp;The page numbers are most likely in the footer area. Open the footer area by double clicking on the bottom of the page, and delete the box with the page number.&nbsp;However!That's not your problem. Your problem is that the text overflows into the footer, I think (based on the pictures). I assume your footers are mixed up a little, but without seeing the document, not easy to say what.You might want to fix that rather than deleting page numbering.Lenka

stefan_blom · Answer

Radoslav_Vladimirov&nbsp;
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Are you running any add-ins in Word? Try options 6 and 7 in the article at&nbsp;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/issues-when-start-or-use-word&nbsp;to (temporarily) disable all add-ins and see if that improves the situation.&nbsp;

radoslav_vladimirov · Answer

Thank you for your input, Lenka. Unfortunately, the document is internal and I am not allowed to share it. Indeed, the numbers are in boxes, taking into account the visual borders. What I subsequently found is that the words concatenated to the said numbers (corresponding to the page number) are not actual words from the document text, but again - MS Word generated strings that tend to repeat.

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MS Word displaying page number before certain words