footnote numbers

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I used the convert feature in Word 2002 (insert/reference
menu) to change my endnotes to footnotes, and that went
pretty well. I can see the note numbers in the text, and
on the footnotes, on the screen OK. However, when I print
the text and footnotes, the footnote numbers disappear
from the text and from the footnotes themselves. Any ideas
as to why?

Also, the font size of the text in the new footnotes has
changed to several different font sizes from one note to
the next. Any ideas? Can you force all notes to have same
font type and size using the styles?

thanks, Joe Feagin
 
You can modify the Footnote Text and Footnote Reference styles, but what you
mostly need to do here is reset all the existing footnotes to the existing
style: click in each footnote and press Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraph
formatting. Select all but the footnote reference and press Ctrl+Spacebar to
reset the font formatting (don't include the reference because ResetChar
will remove the Footnote Reference character style). You'll also need to
reapply any direct font formatting such as italics or boldface.

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Thanks, I have a very large number of footnotes. Is there
a way to do this besides one at a time? JF
 
I feel your pain, so am brainstorming wildly.... The conversion doesn't
normally cause such problems. Depending on how many notes you have and how
many went wrong, some messing around might be worth it before you go to
manual reapplication. You should probably experiment on a copy, though.
You could run an elementary check that the doc did not corrupt somehow, by
pasting all except the last ¶ into a new doc (click ¶ on standard toolbar to
show non-printing characters). Check some of the odd notes to make sure
they are actually in the proper style. Try redefining the style and see if
it takes everywhere, or Find and Replace as the same style to see if it
clears it up. Try converting back and reconverting again.

DM
 
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