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How do I remove an extra line after a footnote?
I am editing a document in which there appear several extra lines after a
number of the footnotes. Word will sometimes allow me to strip one or two of these, but gives me the message "This is not a valid action in footnotes" before the extra lines are all gone. Yes, I am using the view that shows the spaces and returns as characters in the text, and I have tried this in draft view as well as in layout view. |
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How do I remove an extra line after a footnote?
Are you actually seeing empty paragraphs (paragraph marks)? Or are you just
seeing space? If the latter, check the Spacing Before/After of the footnotes after/before the space. If you're seeing paragraph marks and have tried every possible combination of Delete and Backspace, it's possible that the paragraph is part of an actual footnote whose reference mark has gotten deleted (or is hidden). I've seen some very bizarre documents where this has happened, and it's not immediately evident because the footnote numbering seems continuous (because the phantom footnote had a custom mark). What you can try is this: 1. In the document body, go to the footnote reference that precedes the extra, empty paragraph(s). 2. Click the Select Browse Object button between the browse arrows at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar and select Browse by Footnote. 3. Click the down arrow (Next Footnote). Do you end up at the next numbered reference or somewhere in between? If the latter, select a character or two of text before and after the insertion point (which indicates the position of the phantom footnote) and delete. Then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "langerr" wrote in message ... I am editing a document in which there appear several extra lines after a number of the footnotes. Word will sometimes allow me to strip one or two of these, but gives me the message "This is not a valid action in footnotes" before the extra lines are all gone. Yes, I am using the view that shows the spaces and returns as characters in the text, and I have tried this in draft view as well as in layout view. |
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How do I remove an extra line after a footnote?
Hi langerr,
You'll only get that error message if you try to delete the final paragraph mark in a footnote. Try deleting the previous paragraph marks instead. -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "langerr" wrote in message ... I am editing a document in which there appear several extra lines after a number of the footnotes. Word will sometimes allow me to strip one or two of these, but gives me the message "This is not a valid action in footnotes" before the extra lines are all gone. Yes, I am using the view that shows the spaces and returns as characters in the text, and I have tried this in draft view as well as in layout view. |
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