How do I delete hard returns after footnote separators?

[richdaley]

In the older version of Word, you could go to "View" to view footnotes and
select the footnote separator formatting. You could then show formatting to
see all of the default hard returns that preceded the actual footnote. I
need to be able to delete those hard returns in '07, but cannot for the life
of me figure out how.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

It works pretty much the same way, but (of course) all the buttons are
in different places.

1) Be in Draft View (formerly Normal)

2) References tab, Show Footnotes button

3) Use dropdown at the top of the footnotes pane just as in the olden
days.

I once had a Word2003 file that simply grew additional paragraph marks
after the footnote separator, once in a while, for no evident reason.
I had to go there and take them out, just like that.

 

[mkwrobo]

Thanks for this, it was really bugging me. There were about 8 hard returns above the footnotes, adding an additional page to the document.