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Footnote issues in word
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.
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.
