Hello Suzanne,

I hadn't pasted anything into the footer. The only thing I had put in it was
the page number but using the insert page number thing from the menu.

And no, the entire thread was not about the footer. There was also a problem
with the footnotes (which went away when I pasted the whole document into a
blank one). It was the footnote problem that was the most important one
(making me lose almost a fourth of the page space). I only gain a little more
space with the footer problem.
BTW, what does FWIW stand for? (Sorry, english's not my native tongue)

FWIW, was this entire thread about your footer rather than footnotes, or
were the footer problems causing an apparent problem with the footnotes?

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"Pistaccio" wrote in message
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I didn't know documents can get corrupted. The article you mention was
very
interesting (though scary because it means my document can get corrupted
again).
Thanks for letting me know about this.

To reply to your question:
What kind of spaces are you referring to? How did you manage to delete
them?

I clicked on "view header and footer", then I clicked inside the footer
area, I used the arrows to go to the bottom of the area and then I used
the
delete button to erase a few lines. (I don't know how those "lines" got
there, maybe because of the corruption, because I had never typed them in
myself).