Thanks for the offer but I found a little trick around
the problem:

I insert a footnote anywhere on the same page above the
table, set its color to white, and delete the space
between those two words (so it looks like regular text).
This is where I write the footnote remark.
Next I delete the original footnote and replace it with a
number formatted so it looks like a footnote but doesn't
have a link underneath it.

Not very elegant but it gets the job done.

Thanks again for your help!





-----Original Message-----
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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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"cbfunky" wrote in message
...
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
...
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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Words into Type
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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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