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Great sleuthing, Karen! Each table footnote has its own individual text flow, so at some point content got added within the footnote flow. I always work with text symbols showing for this very reason, that there's a little less chance of inadvertently getting content in the wrong flow.
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Here is what it looks like:
Also tried saving as a .mif and adding a disconnected page then connecting it. Nothing has worked so far.
Karen, as you're on a deadline I'd suggest that it's easier to resurrect the file by creating a new file rather than troubleshooting what went wrong with the current file.
1. save your current file as-is, so that you're sure you have both the content that you've entered and the formatting. Personally I'd also do a second backup copy of the problem file with a different name, e.g. xxBAD or something.
2. create a brand new FM file. With both documents open, in the new file do File > Import > Formats, and select the "old" file in the drop-down menu. Then select which will copy all the master pages and paratags etc. over to your new file. Save this new file with a different name, "xxNew". Be sure to note what settings you've selected on the bottom section "While updating remove", so that if you need to you can re-do the import and change these settings. The initial selection depends on how many style overrides you might have used (if any) in the original document.
3. In the xxNew file, put your cursor in the text frame at the top of the first (and so far only) page. Then do File > Import > File. Choose the xxOld file. At the bottom of the dialog be sure to select "copy into document". This will copy the content from the other file into the xxNew file.
In the "Import text flow" dialog that pops up, choose the Body page flow and the default "A (Main Flow)". Because you've already imported the formats you could use either the default "Reformat Using current document's formats" or the bottom "Retain Source's Formatting" -- the choice depends a lot on whether you have ad hoc formatting in your original document, e.g. highlighted words and just clicked "Bold" from the menu, as opposed to using a character style called "Bold", or changed the alignment of a paragraph but not made a new paragraph tag for that different alignment, both of those examples are of overrides. If you have used a lot of overrides then I would suggest using "Retain source's formatting".
4. In the xxNew file, page to the end of the document. Put your cursor before the "end of flow" symbol,
Start typing, enter a few carriage returns, whatever, to be sure that when you reach the end of the page that FM will automatically add a new page and your typing does extend forward onto the next page as you expect.
Assuming things are ok, then save this xxNew file as the original filename.
That should get you back to operation, and you can work out what went wrong with the original file once the deadline has passed.
Sheila
I have tried this, and it does look like there is a disconnected page. because there is another end of flow symbol on the next page in the new document after I import the old document, but when I try to connect the text frames, it says they are already connected.
Sheila,
I wasn't aware that footnotes have their own text flow. (That would have saved me a few hours, knowing that table was lurking right above! Of course, you didn't know that.) 
You can bet I won't ever forget that factoid!
Thanks again for everyone's help!
Karen
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