You've definitely got footnotes set to "Bottom of page" and not "Below
text"?

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"TheDood TheDood via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
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I have exactly the same issue. I have taken my document apart, and can't
work out why there is such a huge gap between the footnote and the footer.

It must be the styles, but I can't see why.

I've looked at the page layout, the Footnote Text styles, the footnote
separators in the Normal view and nothing obvious has come up.

Could this be a "feature"??

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