Your screenshot clearly shows that your document contains both the "Footnote Reference" and "Footnote Text" Styles, so I cannot understand how or why you'd get the error message reported in post #7 - unless that, too, is a result of your document's corruption. Are you still working with the original document, or with one created via the process I outlined in post #2?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]