Actually, your editor would need to make sure a Section break is the last thing copied. You being able to identify them (quite easy if you switch to Draft View), doesn't help if your editor doesn't use them.



At a more basic level, though, why is your editor copying/pasting to another document - and without knowing how to do so properly? If you need to break the document into segments for editing, I'd suggest you make a number of copies, one for each segment, then simply delete whatever occurs before/after the desired segment for each document. Your editor should then work in the documents you supply and use Track Changes, so you can see exactly what is being changed.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I explored the menus and learned how to insert section breaks. As you suggest, I inserted section breaks at the end of each chapter. I was able to make and save a set of copies of the sections as separate documents. This solved all the formatting problems we were experiencing.

Both my editor and I are new to the process of editing a complex document with footnotes in Word. I think with your excellent help we are now working efficiently. I will reassemble the edited and approved sections as they are finished. Finally when all is done I will remove the section breaks so that the final is one long document. All the footnotes will then be numbered sequentially throughout and the file will be ready to give to the book designer...I hope.