Repeated footnote number in Chicago 17t ed full-note - very long document

Langrfj

I am hoping someone can help with a sticky problem. I have a long Word doc (100K words plus). Each chapter has footnotes that begin again at 1 (i.e. not numbered all the way through the document). Towards the end, I have found a repeated footnote number that doesn't resolve itself with deletion and editing. If I delete the repeated footnote, it just moves the repetition along to the next reference and repeats that (instead of two 176s I have two 177s). Has anyone come across this problem? Happy to be redirected if so, but would welcome a solution! Thanks!

adamsmith

Footnote numbering is handled by Word, so you would want to look/google there for a solution. IIRC tracked changes can cause this

AngieSuarezG

Hi! I had a similar problem with numbered footnotes. In my case word was jumping a couple of numbers. It took me a while to figure out that it was because the mode to track changes in the document was activated. I resolved it by accepting all the changes that I had made in the pages and footnotes affected through the revision tab in word, then the document auto-changed the number sequence. Hope this helps?

Langrfj

Thanks! That's useful advice from both. The other suggestion was to unlink and make the changes manually (it's a finished document). I'll tackle the track changes first.

Langrfj

Yep, the track changes solution worked. Thanks for your replies!