footnote insert also puts 14 unwanted blank lines in middle of my.

[Guest]

When I insert a footnote WORD (2003) puts the separator about 2 paragraphs
down then skips 14 blank lines to the bottom of the page. When I delete the
footnote the text is fine (blank lines are gone). But of course I can't
delete them manually. Any idea of what the problem is?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's a long shot, but I'm wondering if this might be a bizarre result of
having the vertical alignment of the page (Layout tab of Page Setup) set to
Justified. The other possibility (and a more likely one) is that the
Footnote Separator has acquired a style with a lot of Space Before/After or
gigantic line spacing. In Normal view, View | Footnotes. Select Footnote
Separator in the dropdown menu and note what style it is in and check on the
paragraph formatting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Ms. Thomas,

Did you ever find out how to fix this problem?

 

[Guest]

This is what I ended up doing to fix this problem.

Highlight the paragraph that is being split between 2 pages, leaving so much
space between the text and footnote separator. Under format/paragraph/line
and page breaks there are 4 choices to check under pagination. Uncheck them
all.

No one single choice or combination of pagination choices fixed the problem
every time, but usually "Widow/Orphan Control" and "Keep with Next" were the
most helpful choices. When the pagination was such that most of the text
filled the space on the first of the pages, then I'd edit the document and
footnote text a bit to try and save a line.

It took awhile, but eventually I was able to eliminate the excess space
between the document text and footnote separator in almost every situation.

Hope that helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For more, see http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/BottomLine.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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