I'm writing a book--about 60,000 words. It's all in one document. I wanted to see how it would appear in a 6x9 book format. I created a blank document in the desired format and then pasted my mss (prepared on 8.5x11 letter format) into the new document. Footnotes did not appear in the new document. Why not?

Unless you are pasting in plain text format, footnotes should follow with the pasted data. You are pasting into another Word document, I presume?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Yes, I am pasting into an empty Word document formatted for 6x9 paper. If I past into a new 8.5x11 document everything is there.

Content should reformat automatically when you change the paper size. This won't happen if it is inside table cells whose dimensions are fixed. Could you attach an example document (remove any sensitive information) to a post in this forum?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

FWIW, you should also be able to simply re-format the existing book for the new size, then save it with a new name. This would obviate any copy/paste hassles.

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Paul Edstein
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