Numbering of endnotes/footnotes in Word 2004

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Hi
I am using Word 2004 on Mac OS 10.4 and i have a problem with endnotes
numbering. I am working with a big report where all footnotes are
inserted as endnotes in the end of the document with auto numbering.
If i insert a new note between let's say note 3 and 4, it takes number
4 and the previous number 4 becomes 5 and so on, this works great.
However, if i delete note 3 for example, note 4 and the ones after do
not re-number one step up, they still display as 4,5,6. If i have the
following text: "a study shows that the behavior3 of the human4 person
....." (with 3 being note 3, and 4 note 4) and i want to move the
reference 3 to have it after the word study, the result shows up like
"a study3 shows that the behavior of the human5 person ...." and note
number 4 disappears.
Does somebody know what is the problem here? Thank you for any help.
 
If you have Track Changes turned on, the numbers won't sort themselves out
till you accept all the changes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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Hi
I am using Word 2004 on Mac OS 10.4 and i have a problem with endnotes
numbering. I am working with a big report where all footnotes are
inserted as endnotes in the end of the document with auto numbering.
If i insert a new note between let's say note 3 and 4, it takes number
4 and the previous number 4 becomes 5 and so on, this works great.
However, if i delete note 3 for example, note 4 and the ones after do
not re-number one step up, they still display as 4,5,6. If i have the
following text: "a study shows that the behavior3 of the human4 person
...." (with 3 being note 3, and 4 note 4) and i want to move the
reference 3 to have it after the word study, the result shows up like
"a study3 shows that the behavior of the human5 person ...." and note
number 4 disappears.
Does somebody know what is the problem here? Thank you for any help.
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Have you tried right clicking on the number and clicking "Update field"?
 
Right-clicking does not show any Update field option. But Suzanne's
suggestion worked fine. Thank you anyway for answering.
 
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