You can suppress the line between footnotes and text, though I don't think
you can get rid of the space entirely. See #5, Random Lines, on this page:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/footnotefaq.htm

Your suggestion of a document footer, section footer, and page footer is
very intriguing. Try posting it as a Suggestion from the MS Office Online
newsgroup interface.


On 12/12/05 9:36 AM, "Steve Cherne" wrote:

Sorry Tony, I should have been a little more specific. I already have a
footer that is going on each page. And since Word won't let there be more
than 1 footer per page, your suggestion won't work in this case. Microsoft
really needs to allow more than 1 footer per page (probably up to 3; section
footer, page footer, document footer). I have also tried footnotes and
endnotes, which looked promising. Footnotes can be put on the bottom of a
page but include a dashed line above the footnote area that I can't seem to
suppress. Endnotes looked like they would work, but they can't be positioned
at the bottom of a page. Right now I am investigating putting the text into
a table and positioning the table at the bottom of the page. However there
appears to be a problem in that sometimes Word will respect the page footer
and other times it will overprint the page footer. Hopefully, someone has
got a solution.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Put the text in the footer, like this ..

Press Ctrl+F9, Type IF, Type space
Press Ctrl F9, Type PAGE
Move cursor past the right brace after page
Type space, type =, type space
Press Ctrl+F9, Type NUMPAGES
Move cursor past the right brace after numpages
Type ""

Enter your paragraph between the quotes
Press Alt+F9 to toggle field codes display.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Steve Cherne" wrote in message
...
I have got a fixed paragraph that needs to be put at the bottom of the
last
page of a document (or the bottom of the first page if the document is
only
one page long). I have tried footers and section positioning but can't
get
them to work properly. Word seems to only respect the page positioning
for a
section if the page begins with that section. When my document is one
page
long, the paragraph that should be at the bottom, is continuous with the
paragraph in the section above it. Anybody know how to do this?

Thanks,
Steve




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