I created a Word 2007 document by copying and pasting several smaller Word 
2003 documents into one large document. Each of the smaller documents had 
several footnotes in it. When I combined all the documents together, the 
footnote numbers in the large document are discontinuous. I accepted all 
changes, deleted and recreated various footnotes, but nothing worked. Any 
advice how to renumer all the footnotes in the new document?

Hi Naomi,

It seems to me that you copied section breaks into your new document. It 
this is the case, the footnote numbering that you are seeing is a result of 
the fact that the footnote numbering in each section is independent of the 
footnote numbering in the other sections. You can solve this problem by 
removing all the section breaks or by resetting the footnote number in each 
section. If you want to use the latter approach, perform the following steps:
1) Place the cursor in the first footnote that has the wrong number.
2) On the Reference tab, in the Footnotes group, click the dialog box 
launcher (the small diagonal arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the 
Footnotes group).
3) In the Footnotes dialog box, in Start at, type the number that you want 
the footnote at the cursor to have.
4) Click Apply.
5) Repeat these steps for the next footnote that has the wrong number.

-- 
Hope this helps,
Pesach Shelnitz
My Web site: http://makeofficework.com 


"Naomi" wrote:

> I created a Word 2007 document by copying and pasting several smaller Word 
> 2003 documents into one large document. Each of the smaller documents had 
> several footnotes in it. When I combined all the documents together, the 
> footnote numbers in the large document are discontinuous. I accepted all 
> changes, deleted and recreated various footnotes, but nothing worked. Any 
> advice how to renumer all the footnotes in the new document?

Or you could just select "Continuous" and "Apply to: Whole document" in the 
Footnote and Endnote dialog.

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Pesach Shelnitz" <pesach18(AT)hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:8DE685E7-5048-427F-BA9A-C8AFAC573FFC@microsoft.com...
> Hi Naomi,
>
> It seems to me that you copied section breaks into your new document. It
> this is the case, the footnote numbering that you are seeing is a result 
> of
> the fact that the footnote numbering in each section is independent of the
> footnote numbering in the other sections. You can solve this problem by
> removing all the section breaks or by resetting the footnote number in 
> each
> section. If you want to use the latter approach, perform the following 
> steps:
> 1) Place the cursor in the first footnote that has the wrong number.
> 2) On the Reference tab, in the Footnotes group, click the dialog box
> launcher (the small diagonal arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the
> Footnotes group).
> 3) In the Footnotes dialog box, in Start at, type the number that you want
> the footnote at the cursor to have.
> 4) Click Apply.
> 5) Repeat these steps for the next footnote that has the wrong number.
>
> -- 
> Hope this helps,
> Pesach Shelnitz
> My Web site: http://makeofficework.com
>
>
> "Naomi" wrote:
>
>> I created a Word 2007 document by copying and pasting several smaller 
>> Word
>> 2003 documents into one large document. Each of the smaller documents had
>> several footnotes in it. When I combined all the documents together, the
>> footnote numbers in the large document are discontinuous. I accepted all
>> changes, deleted and recreated various footnotes, but nothing worked. Any
>> advice how to renumer all the footnotes in the new document?
>