bizarre unique footnotes problem

[grammatim]

I just received a chapter for editing, and it _looks_ like it has
footnotes -- but what it really has is numbered paragraphs that
somehow appear on the correct page in the footnotes area, with
superscripted numbers (not footnote references) in the text (except
sometimes). The first result in searching for footnotes is 104 -- but
it has no footnote attached to it (no "screentip" view, double-
clicking on it doesn't go anywhere) -- and there's a paragraph
numbered 104 at the foot of the page.

Changing the style of the footnote paragraphs to Footnote Text yields
an en-dash instead of a footnote number.

I don't particularly want to create 150 footnotes manually and move
the text into them!

The ms. originated in Spain; is something even more unusual than
WordPerfect common over there?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

All I can say is, "I feel your pain." <g>

 

[grammatim]

It's gotten worse. When I try to replace the seemingly independent
footnote number and paragraph-in-the-footnote zone with normal
footnotes, it turns out that they _are_ somehow connected -- but the
new footnote appears on an unpredictable page.

I'll try opening it in Word2003 where things might be simpler.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Oh, now, that is really bizarre. I'd be interested in seeing a snippet of
this mysterious document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

It's gotten worse. When I try to replace the seemingly independent
footnote number and paragraph-in-the-footnote zone with normal
footnotes, it turns out that they _are_ somehow connected -- but the
new footnote appears on an unpredictable page.

I'll try opening it in Word2003 where things might be simpler.

 

[grammatim]

I'll send you both what I got from the volume editor and the one where
I've done most of the formatting but not yet any editing.

I wrote asking her what word processor she used (the volume editor
didn't notice anything unusual, but he's only concerned with things
like getting all the abbreviations of sources right).