Remove footnote formatting bug/issue

Herb Schaffner 0 Reputation points
2026-09-10T17:07:28.76+00:00

I am a writer with an 80,000 word manuscript. I didn't realize fully what a pain this issue would become.

Somehow in creating a footnote about one third of the way through the final ms, Word turned the rest of the ms

essentially into a footnote, and despite trying many things, I can't undo it. I also can't risk deleting all that work.

It placed a line at the top of each page "thinking" the rest of the ms is a footnote. That language now is locked to comments. All I want is to remove that code.

Help!!!

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