Deleting Footnotes in Word 2007

Question

I'm working on a document in Word 2007. Somehow, when I was moving things around, a phantom footnote was introduced. (See attached image.) I have not been able to delete it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Go to beginning of document.
2. Click the References tab.
3. Click Show Notes.
4. Click Next Footnote until the cursor moves to a position where a footnote does not exist.
5. That is the phantom footnote.
6. Delete the next around the cursor.

Answer 2

I did not see a Next Footnote option in Word 365. But I realized that what happened is that the text of the endnotes was deleted but the endnotes themselves were left intact. The endnote numbers were particularly phantom-like because the Find utility doesn't find footnote or endnote numbers. But by manually searching the text where the sequential endnote numbers should be, I found them and was able to delete them. This also deleted the blank endnotes themselves.

Answer 3

After spending (way too much) time, I realized I was editing my document using track changes... Aaaand I found out that if I switched view to seeing All markup I was able to see - and delete - my already deleted (and hence invisible) footnotes.

Bloody hell...

Answer 4

Providing you haven't made a lot of changes since, undo (ctrl + Z) always fixes things like these :)

Answer 5

Turn on the Show/hide feature. Search through the document for the 'hidden' footnotes in the body of the text and delete.