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Can anyone help me find and eradicate a phantom footnote?
I'm no novice to Word, but I'm having trouble with a document written as a joint effort by several colleagues, one of who did a footnote by hand in the text. I've managed to sort that little blip out, but now have a gap in my footnotes between 5 and 7; I can't find footnote 6, despite having hunted high and low, lost the cursor, tried deleting it, looked at them all as endnotes...
It's driving me mad!
Is there an easy solution to this, or am I going to have to take them all out and start again (bearing in mind this is a document running to a substantial number of pages...)?
forgot to say - I'm using Word XP Professional
4 Answers
- The PhlebobLv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
I would suggest going back to the original text to locate footnote 6. You might even find there is none!
I hope you're converting the new footnotes to true Word XP footnote format. In the long run, the effort will be worth it. Word will automatically maintain the numbering sequence no matter what you do to the footnotes. It will also do its darnedest to keep the footnotes on the page (and out of the footer, too), as well as give them a format different from the normal text.
To put in a Word footnote:
1. Position the cursor where you want the footnote reference to go.
2. Click on the Insert->Reference->Footnote menu item.
3. Click Insert.
4. Type the footnote.
The footnotes are best viewed in Print Layout view, at least until you get used to how they work.
Hope that helps.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
What about showing your...I can't think of the name, but you show your formatting codes. You could reveal formatting codes and delete it from that format.
