Inserting footnote makes page number mysteriously appear at top ed

[Jackie1776]

Background: I am helping someone format a couple of large, book-length
documents into a consistent look/design. These two documents were originally
several different documents, which she has combined and edited into one. The
original source document authors seem to have had varying degrees of skill in
Word -- some knew how to use Styles, References, etc., whereas others
apparently just used Word as a typewriter (hitting "Enter" a lot to start a
new page, etc.). The person I am helping is using 2003 and I am using 2007,
and I do not know which version(s) the original source documents were created
in (or if they were created in Word at all).

Today's problem: Some of the pages have mysterious, dynamically-updated page
numbers at the very top edge of the page, about one inch left from the upper
right corner. These page numbers are not part of the header.

After much trial and error I finally traced this problem back to the
inclusion of Footnotes on those pages. When I delete the Footnote Reference
number from the body of the page, the page number disappears, if I (re)insert
a Footnote, the page number reappears.

I have been through every footnote-related setting I can find, searched
Help, and Googled to no avail. How can I make these page numbers disappear,
short of deleting all the Footnotes and re-creating/formatting them manually
(not using the Footnote function from the Reference tab)? This is driving me
absolutely crazy!!!

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If these really are footnotes, they act very strange, and I'm guessing the
document must be damaged somehow. Have you tried copying and pasting the
contents, except for the final paragraph mark (¶), into a new file?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure the page number is not in the header? Using Insert | Page
Numbers: Top of Page inserts a page number in a frame anchored to the header
paragraph. If you like, send a sample of the misbehaving document to me by
email and I'll take a look.

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

 

[joetuna]

This will definitely fix it. You have page number fields in your footnote separator. Draft view. Show footnotes. Show separator.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/v...e-or-endnote-separator-VA102583138.aspx?CTT=1

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