Deleting end-notes in Word

Question

I am editing a document in Word 2016. I went to delete an end-note by deleting the note number in the text, but the subsequent notes did not renumber. It looks to me like there is some kind of residual code still that is preventing Word from renumbering the subsequent notes.  How do I fix this?

Answer 1

If you've somehow managed to delete just the endnote reference without affecting the numbering of other endnotes, that suggests what you deleted was the reference in the endnote, not the reference in the document body. If not try running the macro at: http://www.msofficeforums.com/word-vba/16610-repair-two-interspersed-endnote-numbering-schemes.html#post47377

The macro there should repair the endnote structure, enabling you to delete the unwanted one.

If that doesn't work it's possible the document has acquired some form of corruption. Corrupt documents can often be 'repaired' by inserting a new, empty, paragraph at the very end, copying everything except that new paragraph to a new document based on the same template (headers & footers may need to be copied separately), closing the old document and saving the new one over it.