Endnotes Word 2003 End of document placement mid-page

[Guest]

I am using Word 2003 under XP Pro. I am using Endnotes with no problem except
that the first endnote starts after 17 greyed out paragraph marks that follow
the short-line beginning. I cannot delete those paragraphs, I can't insert
new page before the first endnote.

I really don't want to see the endnotes starting inexplicably in the middle
of the page. I've tried doing a section break just after the first line of
the page (which says "Appendix"), but I still get the 17 ghost paragraphs.

Any ideas how to get rid of those so that the first endnote will start at
the top of the page? Thanks for any help.

Michael

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

it sounds like the paragraph marks are attached to the Endnote
Separator. See #5 here for how to clear them:

5. Random Lines Appear
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/footnotefaq.htm

 

[Guest]

Perfect!! It worked like a charm. I actually had read note 5 before, but
somehow didn't understand it. But you explanation was just right on. Many
thanks. (As you can tell, I feel a great sense of relief.)

I note that sometimes extra paragraph marks get inexplicably thrown into my
headers and footers, and I bet the same thing that produces those is throwing
them into the Endnotes Separator. I clear them out of the Headers and Footers
as they occur, but they probably just built up in the Endnotes.

Again, thank you.

Michael

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help. I have no idea about the cause. With headers and
footers, it's easy to paste in a line that brings along an extra para
mark, though.

Note 5 doesn't focus on the "extra para marks" problem (it's a just a
throwaway comment at the end), so it would be easy to miss its relevance
to this.

Daiya

 

[Guest]

Actually, the extra CRLFs in the header and footer are not from pasting. I
will not even have gone to the header and footer, and suddenly I notice the
footer's grown to 20 lines. I think it has something to do with styles and
formatting, or perhaps from generating a table of contents.

As I wrote, I'm now used to going into headers and footers and stripping out
the CRLFs, but the Endnotes was new to me. Great to have your help.