atw: Re: Footnotes in word
- From: Chris Virtue <cvlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:29:16 +1000
Thanks Kate. Bugs in Word? Who'd have thought. It does seem the only
plausible explanation.
2009/6/18 Macumber, Kate <macumberk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I think this is a Word bug. We use Word 2003 and it's happened to us too -
> in addition, tables and styles often start corrupting in the document.
>
> We've had the problem for the past year and I can't find any fixes for it.
>
> Having said that, it might be a corruption in your Normal template (our
> Normal template is centrally controlled, so we check this). If you delete
> the template, next time you open word it will re-create your Normal template.
> It won't fix the document, but it might save you from having problems with
> other documents.
>
> The only way we've found to get rid of the corruption in a particular
> document was to convert the document to HTML then back into Word.
> Unfortunately, a straight conversion from Word to HTML means that you will
> lose some of your formatting and any fields.
>
> However, if you do the following, most of your formatting and fields will
> be preserved:
>
> 1. Convert the document to XML.
>
> 2. Close and reopen the doc.
>
> 3. Convert the document to HTML.
>
> 4. Close and reopen the doc.
>
> 5. Convert the document back to a Word doc file.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kate.
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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Chris Virtue
> *Sent:* 18 June 2009 07:46
> *To:* austechwriter
> *Subject:* atw: Footnotes in word
>
> One of the people here has a word doc with footnotes. Every page that has a
> footnote has the header twice - above and below the footnotes. Does anyone
> know why this is happening? How does one fix it? We're using 2003
> (11.5604.5606).
>
> Ta.
>
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