Deleting a footnote

[Guest]

In Word 2000, I am attempting to delete a footnote. I can delete the index
number (or I can delete the index number and characters to either side of
it), which is the way that one normally delete footnotes, but that doesn't
delete this footnote. Yet if I try to delete the footnote directly, I will
get the typical error message to the effect that such an action is not valid
for footnotes. Also, holding my cursor near to the footnote index shows the
footnote, so I know that this is a "real" footnote that should be deleted by
deleting its index number, but this doesn't appear to work.

I could kludge around this problem if it was just a document that had a few
footnotes that I was just going to print and send, but this is a document
that is being shared with dozens of people, where they use it to make
suggested changes. It needs to be free of stupid little work-arounds.

Any good suggestions?

 

[Guest]

My previous post was not complete. The problem here is that I am using
underlines & overstrikes to show changes. The problem is that, when I delete
the footnote by deleting its index mark (as I should) that it does not show
the footnote below as being overstruck. If I "accept" everything, then the
footnote and the footnoted text goes away, but it otherwise shows up with no
indication whatsoever that it has been deleted.

Is this one of those things where, "that's not a bug, that's a feature"?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you tracking changes? If so, deleted text may not be really gone until
you accept the changes.

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

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[Guest]

Yes, I am tracking changes. The problem is that I want the reader to look at
the document and have their attention called to the fact that the footnote
has been deleted.