How do I renumber existing footnotes?

[jeneefah]

I had multiple footnotes in my document, and when I deleted one of them, Word
did not automatically renumber the others, so my footnotes go from 23 to 25,
from 35 to 37, etc. How do I fix this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have Track Changes enabled, the numbers will not be correct until you
have accepted all the changes.