One suggestion that may be completely off the wall but might make a
difference is to check the Compatibility Options (Tools | Options |
Compatibility) and make sure they are set to Word 2002. Also, make sure that
the table is not wrapped (Table Properties | Table | Wrapping: None). It's
hard to imagine what might be causing this problem, but if you would like to
send (to my email--don't post it here) a *small* sample of a document
experiencing this issue, I'll be happy to take a look at it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"cbfunky" wrote in message
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oops, forgot my name in the previous post...

it is office xp.



-----Original Message-----
What version of Word is this?

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"cbfunky" wrote in message
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no, ALL footnotes are gone

Meanwhile, I found out that it might cause problems
when
footnotes are inside tables...



-----Original Message-----
Is it perhaps that the FN has moved to the next page?
See

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...teOnDiffPage.h
tm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"cbfunky" wrote in message
...
First of all, here is what is looks like:
http://www.geocities.com/cbfunky/prob

The first picture is from a backup file (thank god
for
those!), the second one is from the current
document. I
just noticed that all of my footnotes are gone, or
better: they are not being displayed (because when I
hover the cursor over the reference, the baloon
thingy
with the text shows up).

I already tried the following:
1) View - Normal - Display - Footnotes: The
footnotes
show up in a seperate pane but they do NOT show in
the
document and they are NOT being printed!

2) Copying the whole text into a new doc - doesnt
change
anything.

3) Inserting a new footnote on the same page as an
already existant one: until five minutes ago the
footnotes would show up until I finished typing the
new
one, but now Word only keeps a) crashing or b) re-
numbering pages for the end of all times.

Gnaaaaa, I'm desperate! Please help me!
Thanks,
cbfunky

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