Footnote problem

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FinChase

I am editing a long document that contains footnotes on several pages. I
noticed that one of my footnotes disappeared, so I reinserted it. Later I
found that apparently it did not disappear but moved to a different page--5
pages away. Now it has caused my other footnotes on the page to which it
moved to re-number. I've deleted the footnote but I can't get the footnotes
to re-number correctly. Can anyone help with this? I am going crazy with
this document!
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Are you tracking changes?

Did you delete the footnote by selecting the number in the main text and
deleting it?
 
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FinChase

Thanks for the response. I am tracking changes. I tried what you suggested
and accepted the change but this did not seem to affect the problem. I
reversed that process and reverted to an earlier version of the document and
rejected the change where I had deleted the footnote. So the extra footnote
is back but it begins with 2. The next footnote after it (which is in
reality, the first reference on this page) is also beginning with 2, so I
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

It's possible that your document was converted from WordPerfect. I've seen
this happening with WP conversions, where the WP footnotes look like "real"
Word footnotes but don't behave accordingly. The only recourse in that case
was to recreate them all more or less from scratch (copying the text from
the "fake" footnotes into "real" ones, then deleting the "fake" ones).
 
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