Hello All,




I registered here, hoping someone could help me. I looked on the web, and searched this forum, but I did not see an answer for my problem, so I am making a new thread. Apologies if this has been dealt with before.


Scenario: I have written my thesis - over 300 pages with about 1200 footnotes, and I had to put it in Track Changes to show corrections to my examiner. While in Track Changes I added new footnotes and deleted others. The numbering was off, but that was when it was in Track Changes. My corrections were accepted, so I accepted all Changes in Track Changes.



Problem: The problem is that the new footnotes were numbered separately from the old footnotes even after Track Changes. I put my document in Draft form and clicked on Show Footnotes and only these new footnotes appeared. Also when I try to select footnotes Word only selects the new footnotes not the old ones. The old footnotes are still in the document, but I think Word considers them part of the document instead of footnotes. The numbers do not look like superscript.


So for some reason Word does not recognize the old footnotes, only the new ones. There are only about 41 new footnotes and 1100+ old footnotes. I do not want to have to redo the footnotes. Is there a solution to this problem? It appears to only impact this document.


Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. I have both the Track Changes copy and post-Track Changes copy of the thesis.