Gap in footnote numbering

[Guest]

I merged two documents but the footnotes aren't running continuously;
instead, one document ends @ #162 and then where the other document was added
it starts at #243. I want to force it to renumber 243 as #163 and so forth.
Please help!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Do any of the conditions listed here apply? (second topic)
http://daiya.mvps.org/biblio.htm#RenumberNotes