footnotes in Word

If you've ever tried to create a footnote in Word and got the daft error message that states "Start At must be between 1 and 16383 for this format." when the Start At is set to 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4 or ...) then the fix is to select the entire document apart from the last paragraph mark (turn the viewing of paragraph marks on by pushing the ¶ button on the toolbar) and then copy paste the document into a new document. Hopefully the document is not that big and that you can copy paste with no problems! Thanks to this post on google groups for the answer