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MS Word displaying page number before certain words
Dear All, 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 wor...
Hi, Stefan! Thanks for joining the conversation. In fact, the same issue is available in other documents as well. I have not managed to catch the source of the issue yet. My wild guess would be something related to the higher number of texts in different languages and the MS Word proofing/spell check functionalities. Unfortunately, a lot of people use the affected documents and it is not easy to trace the source of the issue.
Are you running any add-ins in Word? Try options 6 and 7 in the article at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/issues-when-start-or-use-word to (temporarily) disable all add-ins and see if that improves the situation.
- Thank you, Stefan. Please, pardon me for the delayed response - I was on a leave of absence. I did try your suggestion, but it did not solve the issue unfortunately.