I paste text paragraphs in order from one web page document to another. If a paragraph contains a footnote then when saved there is overwriting of the line after the footnoted line and usually in the footnote itself as well. The font size of the numbers used is large and cannot obviously be changed and this causes a line space in the transferred paragraph to appear both above and below the line of text where the note number appears. Is there an easy answer? Are these all the same problem or two or more? Any help gratefully received

Hi dbarnes,

Whatever you're copying & pasting from the web page is unlikely to contain anything that Word recognises as a footnote. Hence, the 'footnote' is treated just like any other text. In addition, copying & pasting from many web pages results in tables being pasted into the document. Depending on what you're doing, this could result in multiple tables nested one inside the other. For this reason, I usually prefer to use Paste Special and past the web page content as unformatted text (or at least do a table-to-text conversion immediately afterwards). With the material you're copying & pasting, you'd still need to handles the 'footnotes' separately, so that they become true footnotes in the sense that Word handles them.

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Paul Edstein
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