Try pressing Ctrl+Q in the footer. This should remove the border if that's
what the line is.

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"AmandaH" wrote in message
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Hi Anne,

Tried your suggestions. Hitting Ctrl + A in the footer section just
deleted
the page numbers. For some reason it will not let me select the rogue
blank
lines or the other horizontal line.

I looked at the styles for both the footer and the references and there
are
not any bizarre space before/after settings. Also, when I am in the
'references' section the extra lines re not highlighted. It is only when I
have selected 'footer'.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

It sounds like you've got footnotes or something that are in white text,
maybe? What happens if you click inside the footer, hit Ctrl+A and hit
your
delete key? Also, what kind of references are you "adding"? Check the
formatting of the style "footnote". It could have something like 100 pts
before or something when you go to Format--Style, choose the Footnote
style, hit Modify and then Format--Paragraph, space before/after...
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"AmandaH" wrote in message
...
Hi all!

I'm working in word 2003 and am having an issue when I add references
to
the
document. On each page I add a reference, the footer section on that
page
seems to add about 14 blank lines above the footer and a horizontal
line
(about 5cm long) halfway up the page (just above the blank lines).

The blank lines and the horizontal line appear to be in the footer as
when
I
select to 'view footer' the show/hide formatting marks are also
highlighted.

However! the document will not let me select the blank lines or the
horizontal lines to delete them. A bit on the frustrating side. Any
help
would be greatly appreciated.