> I am working on a doc in French. Formatting appears to be OK. When I insert
> a footnote it gives the number 0 for all footnotes. Changing the options in
> Footnote and Endnote window won't work. I changed "Start at" to 1 and asked
> to "Insert" it gave the message "Start At must be between 1 and 16383 for
> this format."

> Strange is this opening a new doc this problem won't arise. What would be
> wrong with the layout/formatting of this document?

> Thanks.

> S. Ural

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:
> Was the doc originally created in Word?  Were the footnotes created using
> Word's Footnote feature?

> Do a quick test for corruption:

> The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
> copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
> document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can
> get
> corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps
> your
> formatting, but can fix some glitches.

> A paragraph mark is a ¶.  Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
> nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

> See this link for further fixes:

> http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

> On 9/16/05 5:46 AM,  "Seyfullah Ural" wrote:

>> I am working on a doc in French. Formatting appears to be OK. When I
>> insert
>> a footnote it gives the number 0 for all footnotes. Changing the options
>> in
>> Footnote and Endnote window won't work. I changed "Start at" to 1 and
>> asked
>> to "Insert" it gave the message "Start At must be between 1 and 16383 for
>> this format."

>> Strange is this opening a new doc this problem won't arise. What would be
>> wrong with the layout/formatting of this document?

>> Thanks.

>> S. Ural

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