Hello
My question has to do with Microsoft Word (2007, though I’m using the compatibility function).
I am editing a document produced by somebody else. Presumably at some stage a chunk of text was deleted, and that chunk had 30 footnotes attached to it. Presumably, too, the person who did that had Track Changes activated (I’ve noticed that automatic renumbering of footnotes doesn’t work when Track Changes is on).
The result is that the footnotes jump from 97 to 126. (There’s a footnote 98 that is buried amidst the subsequent footnotes, which leads me to think that a section of the deleted text was inserted, again with Track Changes turned on.)
I’ve tried all sorts to things to achieve renumbering, but without success.
I notice that from footnote 126 onwards the ‘Custom Mark’ field of the footnote dialogue box is filled in with – for example – ‘126’. The box that appears when I hover the cursor over the footnote flag also has ‘126’ in front of the text of the footnote (but that number doesn’t appear in the ACTUAL text of the footnote).
How can I achieve sequential renumbering all the way to the end of the document?
It would be terrific if anybody could give me an answer to that!
Thanks!