If you paste text into a footer, an extra, empty paragraph is created. No
matter how carefully you exclude a paragraph mark when selecting and copying
text and include it when pasting, you'll still get an extra paragraph.

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).