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Old December 3rd, 2007, 05:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
micropood
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Default delete or convert table to text--deletes footnotes

Hi, I'm trying to help a friend over the phone. She needs to get rid of an
empty table that is nonetheless taking up space in her document and has a
border around it. When she uses the Table menu to select the table and then
either delete it or convert it to text, all of her footnotes are also
deleted. Any suggestions? Thank you!
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Old December 3rd, 2007, 07:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default delete or convert table to text--deletes footnotes

It would appear that the footnote references are in the table. They'll need
to be moved out of it before the table is deleted. Possibly they are
currently hidden; if so, display of nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click
the Show/Hide ¶ button) will reveal them. If that doesn't help, then making
sure none of the table cells has any negative indents may bring them back in
view. You can also double-click on the reference mark in the note itself in
order to go to the one in the document, which might help to find it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"micropood" wrote in message
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Hi, I'm trying to help a friend over the phone. She needs to get rid of an
empty table that is nonetheless taking up space in her document and has a
border around it. When she uses the Table menu to select the table and
then
either delete it or convert it to text, all of her footnotes are also
deleted. Any suggestions? Thank you!



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Old December 3rd, 2007, 09:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
micropood
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Default delete or convert table to text--deletes footnotes

Thank you! I managed to get some time to go over to her office, and did
display non-printing characters. I deleted the table a row at a time, and
didn't run into any trouble. I'm not sure why she had trouble, but problem
solved!

Thanks again!



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It would appear that the footnote references are in the table. They'll need
to be moved out of it before the table is deleted. Possibly they are
currently hidden; if so, display of nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click
the Show/Hide ¶ button) will reveal them. If that doesn't help, then making
sure none of the table cells has any negative indents may bring them back in
view. You can also double-click on the reference mark in the note itself in
order to go to the one in the document, which might help to find it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"micropood" wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm trying to help a friend over the phone. She needs to get rid of an
empty table that is nonetheless taking up space in her document and has a
border around it. When she uses the Table menu to select the table and
then
either delete it or convert it to text, all of her footnotes are also
deleted. Any suggestions? Thank you!




 




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