Solve : Word - footnote renumbering after a delete?

1.	Solve : Word - footnote renumbering after a delete?
Answer» I have deleted a footnote in a .doc. The remaining footnotes have not been renumbered. I had deleted footnotes with automatic renumbering successfully months ago. I must have done something wrong this time!Did you use the same technique to create all footnotes? What was that technique? What version of Word? I am using Word 2000. I inserted the footnotes over the period in 2008 that I was developing the .doc. I used the normal method of clicking Insert Footnote in Normal View and then typing into the footnote at the bottom of the page. Later, I decided to incorporate some of the footnotes into the TEXT. I copied each footnote into the text then selected the note reference MARK and pressed Del. This removed the footnote and re-numbered all the subsequent ones. I did this hundreds of times over a period without any problems. I have tried to do it again in recent days. The Del has removed the note reference mark from the text but the footnote was not deleted from the footnote area and no re-numbering occurred. I had to reinstall Office some months ago when I had a problem with Excel. This means that I am now working with a different Word 2000. Some settings may be different but Help does not help me to SORT this matter out.Quote from: denisaf on January 29, 2010, 01:58:50 AM I had to reinstall Office some months ago when I had a problem with Excel. This means that I am now working with a different Word 2000. Not sure what you mean here. Word 2000 is Word 2000. Take a look at this article from Microsoft: How to reset user options and registry settings in Word. I suggest you skip the part of the article about How to delete a registry key and go down to Repair Word (Office) and focus your attention on the procedures from that point and below in the article. Actually, I would try to procedure to generate a new normal.dot file first. Here's a reference on just that: www.elamb.org/howto/normal-dot.htmBy 'different Word2000' I meant one with different settings. I have generated a new 'normal.dot' as you suggested. that has not solved the problem. The numbering of the footnotes has got gaps in it where I have deleted. The text has the same gaps. I tried inserting TEST footnotes and then deleting them and that worked.Quote from: denisaf on January 29, 2010, 03:55:35 PM I tried inserting test footnotes and then deleting them and that worked. So, you mean that worked only for those test footnotes, and you still have the problem with all pre-existing footnotes? Yes, I still have the problem with pr-existing footnotes. I selected the note reference mark and then pressed Del. The mark disappeared but the footnote remained in the footnote panel and the numbers did not change for the following footnotes.I have found that this footnote delete and re-numbering problem with old footnotes does not occur with another old .doc I noticed on loading the problem file recently that a message containing the world 'corrupt' flashed up. I have not been able to get that message again. It is quite clear that the problem file has been corrupted in some WAY. soybean recommended I try 'How to delete a registry key and go down to Repair Word (Office) and focus your attention on the procedures from that point and below in the article.' I have done that. Detect and Repair did nothing so I re-installed Office 2000 as suggested. The footnote deletion and following re-numbering still does not work for old footnotes in the problem file.

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I have deleted a footnote in a .doc. The remaining footnotes have not been renumbered. I had deleted footnotes with automatic renumbering successfully months ago. I must have done something wrong this time!Did you use the same technique to create all footnotes? What was that technique? What version of Word? I am using Word 2000. I inserted the footnotes over the period in 2008 that I was developing the .doc. I used the normal method of clicking Insert Footnote in Normal View and then typing into the footnote at the bottom of the page. Later, I decided to incorporate some of the footnotes into the TEXT. I copied each footnote into the text then selected the note reference MARK and pressed Del. This removed the footnote and re-numbered all the subsequent ones. I did this hundreds of times over a period without any problems. I have tried to do it again in recent days. The Del has removed the note reference mark from the text but the footnote was not deleted from the footnote area and no re-numbering occurred. I had to reinstall Office some months ago when I had a problem with Excel. This means that I am now working with a different Word 2000. Some settings may be different but Help does not help me to SORT this matter out.Quote from: denisaf on January 29, 2010, 01:58:50 AM

I had to reinstall Office some months ago when I had a problem with Excel. This means that I am now working with a different Word 2000.

Not sure what you mean here. Word 2000 is Word 2000. Take a look at this article from Microsoft: How to reset user options and registry settings in Word. I suggest you skip the part of the article about How to delete a registry key and go down to Repair Word (Office) and focus your attention on the procedures from that point and below in the article.

Actually, I would try to procedure to generate a new normal.dot file first. Here's a reference on just that: www.elamb.org/howto/normal-dot.htmBy 'different Word2000' I meant one with different settings. I have generated a new 'normal.dot' as you suggested. that has not solved the problem. The numbering of the footnotes has got gaps in it where I have deleted. The text has the same gaps. I tried inserting TEST footnotes and then deleting them and that worked.Quote from: denisaf on January 29, 2010, 03:55:35 PM

I tried inserting test footnotes and then deleting them and that worked.

So, you mean that worked only for those test footnotes, and you still have the problem with all pre-existing footnotes? Yes, I still have the problem with pr-existing footnotes. I selected the note reference mark and then pressed Del. The mark disappeared but the footnote remained in the footnote panel and the numbers did not change for the following footnotes.I have found that this footnote delete and re-numbering problem with old footnotes does not occur with another old .doc I noticed on loading the problem file recently that a message containing the world 'corrupt' flashed up. I have not been able to get that message again. It is quite clear that the problem file has been corrupted in some WAY. soybean recommended I try 'How to delete a registry key and go down to Repair Word (Office) and focus your attention on the procedures from that point and below in the article.' I have done that. Detect and Repair did nothing so I re-installed Office 2000 as suggested. The footnote deletion and following re-numbering still does not work for old footnotes in the problem file.

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