Inserting footnote brings in copy of header and footer

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One of our users inserted a footnote in a document, and a copy of the header
and footer (uneditable/un-deletable) appeared at the end of the page, just
above the footnote. Strangely, the footer was pulled from an appendix -- and
the footnote was inserted in chapter 1. We are using Word's StyleRef field in
the headers and footers to pull information from the cover page of the
document -- if that has any significance.

We have a master document that serves as a template for documents (which was
used for the problem document). When I opened a copy of the original and
inserted footnotes, they functioned properly. Should I chalk this up to a "
MS Word moment" and copy and paste into a fresh document -- or does someone
have an explanation? Thanks.
 
Hi Susan

Susan said:
One of our users inserted a footnote in a document, and a copy of the header
and footer (uneditable/un-deletable) appeared at the end of the page, just
above the footnote. Strangely, the footer was pulled from an appendix -- and
the footnote was inserted in chapter 1. We are using Word's StyleRef field in
the headers and footers to pull information from the cover page of the
document -- if that has any significance.
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most likely explanation seems to be that this "reference" has somehow
become part of the footnote separator -- you cannot edit that thing in
PageLayoutView. But you can do so through NormalView | View | Footnotes,
there in the dropdown box select the separator. ISTR that there is a
"reset" button there, too.

We have a master document that serves as a template for documents (which was
used for the problem document). When I opened a copy of the original and
inserted footnotes, they functioned properly. Should I chalk this up to a "
MS Word moment" and copy and paste into a fresh document -- or does someone
have an explanation? Thanks.
Click to expand...

See above. It might well be that the MasterDocument itself is the
culprit of corrupting your documents (I've never heard of an MD as a
_template_ before, I must admit). Not handled with extreme care, a MD is
pretty likely to create havoc to your data ...

The Word newsgroups are full of pointer to articles discussing when and
why not to use this feature.

Greetinx
Robert
 
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