problems working on document I started in 2009

tulsatops

I first began this document in early 2009, using zotero. I had not worked on it since March 2011. This week I started working on it again, its going to be a chapter in a book. Something is seriously wrong.

When I delete a footnote (by deleting the number, as I would usually do), the entire number disappears. If I add another footnote in the same area of the text, the number never comes back.... meaning that I will have footnotes 1, 2, 3 - then no footnote 4! It then skips to footnote 5. Short of retyping the whole thing again, is there anything I can do?

I have never seen this problem before in any of my other files.

thanks

adamsmith

which style? And are we really talking footnotes? In that case this is much more likely to be a word problem than a Zotero problem - Zotero just tells word to insert footnotes.

tulsatops

Using Chicago style. I just got out an old version of the text and in a sense "started over" - I updated it to Word 2008 and took out the field codes and its actually working without losing numbers.

hopefully this will work, have done a few "notes" and no numbers have disappeared.