If this approach doesn't work, try just a bit of a different approach: The purpose of these steps is to try to remove any confusion that Word may be experiencing and cause it to renumber all the footnotes. In the Replace With box enter the following: ^&.Click OK to close the Find Style dialog box.Locate and click on the Footnote Reference style.With the insertion point in the Find What box, click Format and choose Style.Click the More button, if it is available.Word will also renumber the notes if you were to swap footnotes and endnotes. The problem footnotes are identifiable as such only when the Show/Hide button is pressed because their markers are not surrounded by a box. (The original author may have used another program at some point.) Half the footnotes will not renumber when a footnote is added to the document. Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. As you insert footnotes and endnotes into your document, Microsoft Word. I'm working in a Word 2000 document with 300 footnotes.You can figure this out by putting the insertion point in the section containing footnote 24, displaying the Footnote and Endnote dialog box, clicking Options and examining how the numbering is configured in that dialog box.įinally, if you've tried everything else and the numbering is still messed up, try to "force" Word to examine the numbers it is using. It is also possible that the document has multiple sections in it and that each section (or at least the section containing footnote 24) has been configured so that footnotes for that section begin with a specific number. Display the dialog box again and you can figure out if this is the case.
Change the Numbering area to reflect how you want Word to count your footnotes. Change the Start At value to reflect where you want Word to start numbering. Word displays the Note Options dialog box. Meaning, whoever created the footnotes actually inserted the numbers within the Custom Mark field of the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. Make sure the Footnote radio button is selected in the Insert area of the dialog box. If you are doing your edits without Track Changes being turned on, then it is possible that your footnotes don't use automatic numbering. When the changes are accepted or rejected, then Word will renumber the footnotes accordingly. Word doesn't renumber the footnotes because the footnote is still there-albeit marked for deletion. In that case, deleting the footnote doesn't actually delete it, but simply marks it as deleted text. When many people edit documents, they do so with Track Changes turned on. The answer could be quite simple, and related to using the Track Changes feature of Word. Roger wonders what could be causing this problem with the footnotes. The footnote was actually deleted, but the remaining footnotes did not renumber. automatically renumber if we move the text around during the editing. Roger went into the document body, found the footnote marker for the appropriate footnote, and then deleted it. In MS Word, make automatic footnotes by pressing the CTRL KEY + ALT KEY + F KEY. The document had 90 footnotes in it, and he needed to delete footnote 23.
Roger was sent a Word document that he needed to edit.