Revising a doc I inserted footnotes, how do I get the numbering?

[Guest]

Revising a document I had to insert footnotes but the number restarted at one
instead of continuing in sequence. It is showing footnotes 1, 2 and 3
instead of 10, 11 and 12. How do I get the numbering to be continual?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Was the document imported from WordPerfect?

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

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[Guest]

I don't know where the document was originally typed. It was sent to me via
email. I have corrected the problem by searching for & retyping all the
footnotes throughout the document. Thank you, I'd still like to know how to
do it without the retyping if it can be done for future reference.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You certainly don't have to retype; you can cut and paste the text from the
"fake" footnotes into new real ones.

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

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[Guest]

I found that I was able to enter new footnotes on an old wordperfect document
and that Word allowed me to select continuous or new numbering. You could
try inserting a new foot note and select continuous numbering and then delete
it, or cut and paste the first incorrectly numbered footnote with a new
footnote entry and delete the old.