Word 2007-Footnotes left behind when text is moved

[Sibyltalk]

I expect to have a large number of footnotes in a document I am creating. I
also expect to be cutting and pasting text frequently as it takes shape.
After writing a few pages and adding footnotes, I discovered that the
footnotes are left behind, and seem completely uncoupled from the text. Is
there any way to move text and bring the footnotes along with it? Thanks.

 

[grammatim]

You are making the footnotes using the References > Insert Footnote
command, aren't you?

And if you move a sentence that ends with a footnote, you are careful
to select the note reference number, aren't you?

 

[Sibyltalk]

Thanks for your response. Yes to the first question.

To the second question, I guess I am not clear what it means to be "careful
to select the note reference number" . What I did do was to simply highlight
the area of text that included the footnotes, cut it with ctrl-x, and paste
it with ctrl-v. I thought the footnotes linked to that text would be dragged
along with it, but that did not happen. I expect there is a way to avoid
manually updating the footnotes upon future moves.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you are doing should give the results you expect. Are you tracking
changes?

 

[grammatim]

In that case the footnotes would get copied, but the count would be
doubled rather than ignored.

By being careful to select the note number, I meant that if your
footnote appears after the period at the end of a sentence (American-
style), then if you selected a sentence by, say, Ctrl-click, the
selection would only go up to and including the period but wouldn't
extend the further character to the note number.

 

[Sibyltalk]

Hmm. I have been moving text around without this problem arising again, but
obviously it happened once because otherwise I would not have had to relink
all the footnote text to the main text text. If it happens again, I will try
to figure out what was different and post again to this thread.

Thanks grammatim and Suzanne.