Thanks for the quick reply.
I have fixed my problem thanks to you
For others, what I had to do was turn on the "Show/Hide" button (lets
you see formatting such as spaces and returns) and go to 'Normal' view,
then double-click the footnote, and select the 'footnote separator'
from the drop-down. There I saw that I had a whole bunch of useless
returns in there. Once I deleted that all was well within my soul!
Once again, thanks