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I did not know how to reset. But I think the procedure that Hans posted is the procedure to reset. That worked. Thank you

Nope! Header Footer toolbar indicates footer is not linked. And the footer does not say “Same as Previous”. Section Break is set for “Next Page”.

I tried saving it as an RTF file and it did not harm the tables and it is only 1.3 MB in RTF format. I still need to figure out what is going on with the Word 03 doc.

Where will the number appear?
I’m not sure I know how to run the macro?

Thanks, but it has many tables and cross references and fields.

As I said I am not sure that I know how to use your macro. But I went through the document and converted all the fields to text with {Ctrl}{Shift}{F9} It did not significantly reduce the size of the file. There is one object I for got about. But it is just a word art pic of a formula. It has been there all along.

I cant discern that anything happens when I run your macro. But I may not be doing it right. I pasted it into the VB editor, named it, returned to my document and went to tools/macro/selected it and clicked “RUN”. Notyhing at all happened. What is it supposed to do?

I did as you sugested and it dropped down to about 900kb. But it screwed up some formating and the final footer. After I fixed that (without tracking changes) it had balloned up to 15 MB. No versions saved.
Any idea what would make it ballon up like that?

Thanks Hans. That got it down to 934 kb which seems like a more reasonable size for a 87 page document. It also solved the other problem and I can now protect the document.

I forgot to say that ther are no “tracked changes” currently in the document.

I don’t think it has any objects in it. I did a “Go to” any object. It didn’t find any. This doc has crashed a few times. Its been saved as version. It has been edited by several people.

Another problem has appeared since my first post. I want to protect it from untracked changes but the “Yest start enforcing protection” button is greyed out.

Thanks that makes sense and the Shauna Kelly article also looks helpful.

Would it make sense to apply the styles first, before removing numbering? I am concerned that if I remove numbers first it may make it confusing as to what rank a given paragraph had.
Or would this cause more problems?

Thank you it was in design mode. I am unfamiliar with this feature. How might it have been turned on. I am the creator of the document.

thanks