One of the disadvantages of having Word designed by people who don't
actually make books or scholarly documents is that they don't understand
endnotes (which are what you are using, as opposed to footnotes).
Consequently, the Endnote Separator and Endnote Continuation Separator are
identical to the Footnote Separator and Footnote Continuation Separator,
even though in most cases you don't want any separators at all for endnotes.
There are two approaches you can take:
1. You can't entirely get rid of the separators, but you can minimize their
impact.
a. In Draft view, select the References tab and click Show Notes. This
will display the endnote pane with the described dropdown.
b. Choose Endnote Separator.
c. Select the separator and delete it.
d. Select the remaining empty paragraph and format the font as 1 point
and/or the paragraph line spacing as 1 point. The paragraph will still be
there, but it will be virtually invisible.
e. Repeat for the Endnote Continuation Separator if any of your chapters
will have more than one page of notes.
2. You can use the separators for your own purposes. Using the same
procedure as above, you can substitute the Word "Notes" for the existing
separator line. Similarly, you can substitute "Notes (continued)" for the
continuation separator. It may occur to you that you would like the notes to
start on a new page. Alas! though you might think that you could format the
Endnote Separator as "Page break before," I believe I have found that this
doesn't work, probably because of the virtual nature of the notes and their
interaction with section breaks.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Al-photonics" wrote in message
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Suzanne,
I use WORD 2007. I have a document with 10 chapters. Each chapter has a
set of footnotes. I want to delete the horizontal line associated with
all
the footnotes at the end of each chapter. What is the step-by-step
procedure
for doing this?
Thanks,
Al
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Although I don't advise it, yes, you can do that. How you access it
depends
on your version of Word, but in the Footnotes pane (accessible only from
Normal/Draft view), choose Footnote Separator in the dropdown. Select the
separator and Ctrl+C to copy. Then choose Footnote Continuation
Separator,
select the separator, and Ctrl+V to paste. Close the pane. But the
continuation separator is intentionally differentiated as an aid to the
reader.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Elaine" wrote in message
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Is there any way to customize the footnote continuation separator to
make
it
shorter?
I thank you for your support.
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Thank you... Elaine
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
That is the Footnote Continuation Separator, which indicates that the
first
footnote is a partial one carried over from the previous page.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Elaine" wrote in message
...
I have multiple footnotes and on one of the pages the line above the
footnote
is from margin to margin.
Is there a way change the length of the line above the "footnote"
for
this
one page?
--
Thank you... Elaine