Word2003 Footnotes and system calls

[ChrisGreaves]

I know that I am the only lonely person on the planet left using Word2003, but I am amazed at how many quirks continue to pop out of the woodwork.

This morning I was happily plugging footnotes into a document, minding my own business, offending no-one, when I noticed that I had broken away from the footnotes and was typing precious references to Charles Petzold’s text into the main body of my document - immediately after the inserted footnote symbol.
It was a few seconds work to cut and paste the text back into the still-open footnote, check my page reference, and continue typing.

The same thing happened less than a minute later!

¿Que?

Turns out that my Word2003 OnTime macro that saves my file every minute takes control (and presumably wanders off to a Win7HP system event) and returns not to where-I-was-typing-in–the-footnote, but to where-I-was-typing-in-the-body-of-the-document.

From which I deduce that MSWord must use two or more different sets of infernal internal bookmarks to return to where it thought it was before it was interrupted.
Sigh!

I posted this in MSWord because I have experienced it ONLY in MSWord and I suspect that other triggers (other than VBA OnTimne) might exist. As well I'm not at all certain that the behaviour described above is restricted to Footnotes.

Cheers
Chris

[macropod]

When use Shift-F5 in a document in which the last edit was in a footnote, that takes me back to the footnote, not to somewhere in the document body.

[ChrisGreaves]

When use Shift-F5 in a document in which the last edit was in a footnote, that takes me back to the footnote, not to somewhere in the document body.

Fer sure!

Hi Paul! Always good to hear from you.

Try being partway through generating a Footnote, text cursor in the footnote window, and then issue a File, Save.
Where does your text cursor sit now?

I was using Word2003; it may be fixed in Word 2025.
(grin)
Chris