Microsoft Office Forums - View Single Post - [Solved] Word footnotes and track changes problem

macropod · 03-12-2017, 05:39 AM

Your attachment shows that the problems you described had nothing to do with Word's footnote numbering, but a failure on someone's part to understand how footnotes work, especially when 'track changes' is on. That failure has apparently led that person to try replacing the auto-numbering with manual numbering - and that's what created the mess; the numbers prefixed with 7 in the body of the document and orphaned 8, 9 & 0 in the footnotes are clear evidence of the numbers being typed, instead of being created as footnote references. You can't reasonably expect Word to 'handle' such creative user errors 'better'.