Hello,

I have a document that I have been working on for a while. It has many footnotes. I started out normal and now in front of the horizontal line above the footnotes put a 1.

like this

1. _______________



54 Ibid., para 300.

I tried all I know and chatted with MS help for 2 hours today. They finally reloaded the program and gave up. I start a new document and it is fine. I cut and paste to a new document and the issue remains.

The pull down for footnote and endnote show a custom mark of 1. I can erase this but it will not let me apply.

Windows 10 and MS 365.
Thanks in advance.

It sounds like you need to view the footnote separator to check its content and formatting.

It can be edited by switching to Draft View then clicking on References|Show Notes. You then select 'Footnote Separator' from the Footnotes dropdown in the window. There is a Reset button that might fix it. Otherwise perhaps see if there is an auto-number paragraph attribute applied to it.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thank you Guessed. The footnote seperator had the 1. in front of it. I deleted it and the offending digit went away !!!