Endnotes start at 1 but: Start At must be between 1 and 16838.

[Guest]

When trying to insert a footnote or endnote, a message comes up saying that
the Start At number must be between 1 and 16838. The Start number is 1.
Somebody please help!

 

[Stefan Blom]

This sounds like some form of document corruption.

Try copying the contents, except the final paragraph mark, into a
newly created document. To see the paragraph marks (¶), click the ¶
button on the Standard toolbar.

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Guest]

Thanks Stefan. I tried your suggestion, and the suggestions from the link
you posted, but it is still doing it. It seems to be OK until I delete the
section breaks in the doc.(there are 247 of them in a 219 page document!) But
I have to delete them in order to have breaks only at the end of chapters, so
the footnote numbering starts at 1 again for every chapter.

Any more ideas?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Did you try to delete the section breaks before copying into a new
document, and then recreate them in the "repaired" document?

By the way, why do you need so many section breaks?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Guest]

Hi Stefan,

I don't need that many section breaks - it's actually someone else's
document that I am editing for them. I don't know why they put all those
sections breaks in!

Anyway, I finally managed to fix the document by following your advice -
taking the final paragraph mark out when I copied it into a new document, so
THANK YOU very much!!! It was a great relief. I don't know why it didn't work
the first few times I tried it - maybe I was so stressed out that I was doing
it wrong...!

 

[Stefan Blom]

Glad you got it sorted!

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the document started out in WordPerfect, that would account for all the
section breaks. You would be doing the other person a favor by removing any
that aren't needed.

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

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