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F A L
 
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Thanks Daiya; i discovered an extra paragraph mark in some footers, and that
solved most of the problem.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

You can't control the space between the main text and the footnote
separator. But the notes should extend to the bottom of the page, once
Word starts the notes, it tries to fill up that space to the bottom margin.
Might there be an odd setting in some of your footers pushing the notes
upward? It's also possible that the notes are set to below text, but the
footnote separator has some Space Before attached to it.

To check the footnote separator line:
Switch into Normal View and go to View | Footnotes. A footnote pane will
open up at the bottom. Use the dropdown menu at the top of the pane to
access the separators. Use Format | Paragraph to see whether it has Space
Before set.

Make sure the notes are set to "bottom of page," not "below text" via Insert
|Footnote or Insert | Reference, depends on version, post back if you can't
find it.

View Headers/Footers and see if there is space above the footer text.

DM

On 11/30/04 6:57 AM, "F A L" wrote:

Can I (rather than MS Word) decide how much space I want between the footnote
separator and the last line of the main text? I have modified the format of
the separator, and that did reduce the space beteen the footnote area and the
main text; I have also fixed for the whole document the page settings; the
text alignment is "top" thoughout. And yet (1) Word leaves too much space
between the main text and the footnote separator and (2) the last footnote's
last line is not always at the bottom of the page. I gather this is a
consequence of the "top" aligment of the document, and this is the reason why
i want to know whether the space between the footnotes and the main text can
be modified, so to force the last footnote's last line of every page to
appear at least close to the bootm of it.


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