Kino,
Clearly, my question was unclear. I want to make the note reference invisible. See Hamid's response.
Simi
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On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Kino wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2010, at 1:34 AM, Simeon Chavel wrote:
> 
>> But now I have a new question: How do I make a different first footnote, one that is not numbered with the rest, has in fact no number at all but maybe an asterisk, and in such a way that there is no visible reference in the body of the text?
> 
> Probably a character looking a white space was accidentally set to the first footnote as a custom note reference. If so, running the following macro will make it visible. You can do it manually but not so easily if the width of the character is zero.
> <http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/footendnotes/ClearCustomNoteRef_nwm.zip>
> 
> Attention: the macro normalizes all custom note references.
> 
> 
> Kino
> --
> 
> I seem to have written this macro months ago and has forgot to upload it.
> 
> 
> ### Clear Custom Note References ###
> 
> # Clear all custom note references in the frontmost document.
> # They will revert to those defined in the stylesheet.
> 
> Require Pro Version 1.2
> $doc = Document.active
> if $doc == undefined  # if there is no open document...
> 	exit
> end
> 
> $allNotes = $doc.allNotes
> if ! $allNotes.count
> 	exit 'No note found in this document, exit...'
> end
> 
> foreach $note in $allNotes
> 	$note.customReference = undefined
> end
> 
> ### end of macro ###