Footnotes vanish from WD2007 to WD2003?
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From: Jonathan589 on 19 Mar 2010 06:31 In WD2007 I am writing a long document made up nearly entirely of tables on every page and with a couple of hundred footnotes scattered through the file. It looks fine and dandy, but at the moment I have no printer, so I transfer the file to a WD2003 machine, with the MS Compatability pack in it, or I save the file as a WD97-2003 format. Either way I get a .doc to print. Neither way does it show the footnotes. They're there, and show if I hover over the footnote mark, or if I use Normal view, but they vanish (and the doc shortens by five pages) in Print Layout view or when printed. The rows fit the pages, and the tables split themselves between pages, but even if I split them deliberately, it does not bring my footnotes back. Please would someone suggest where I should look next?
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 19 Mar 2010 09:51
The only time I've seen footnotes disappear this way was in a document containing a table with very deep rows, extending over several pages. Word's practice is to put footnotes for a given row on the page where the row ends. If it happens that a row is so deep and contains so many footnotes that when the end of the row finally arrives there are too many footnotes to fit on the page, they just vanish. You say you have tried splitting the rows, so perhaps this is not what is happening in your case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jonathan589" <Jonathan589(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:88952B63-690D-4EB8-A472-3EF1F774D282(a)microsoft.com... > In WD2007 I am writing a long document made up nearly entirely of tables > on > every page and with a couple of hundred footnotes scattered through the > file. > It looks fine and dandy, but at the moment I have no printer, so I > transfer > the file to a WD2003 machine, with the MS Compatability pack in it, or I > save > the file as a WD97-2003 format. Either way I get a .doc to print. Neither > way > does it show the footnotes. They're there, and show if I hover over the > footnote mark, or if I use Normal view, but they vanish (and the doc > shortens > by five pages) in Print Layout view or when printed. > > The rows fit the pages, and the tables split themselves between pages, but > even if I split them deliberately, it does not bring my footnotes back. > Please would someone suggest where I should look next? > |