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Why are there extra blank lines in my header and footnotes?
I'm editing a Word document. My two-line header keeps 'growing' to have
several blank lines after the end of the title information -- which I have to edit out. I have a single footnote in my document, and that's suddenly acquired three or four blank lines *before* it, which I can't edit out at all -- leaving an inconvenient white space and throwing out the layout. What is causing this? How can I fix it? |
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Assuming there are no actual empty paragraphs in either header or footnotes,
the most likely cause is that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) has gotten set to Center and either the page is not full or there are several "Keep with next" paragraphs toward the end. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/BottomLine.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "T Brown" T Brown @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I'm editing a Word document. My two-line header keeps 'growing' to have several blank lines after the end of the title information -- which I have to edit out. I have a single footnote in my document, and that's suddenly acquired three or four blank lines *before* it, which I can't edit out at all -- leaving an inconvenient white space and throwing out the layout. What is causing this? How can I fix it? |
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Apologies: I didn't make it clear, but there *are* additional empty
paragraphs (4 of them) appearing after the 'footnote divider' but before the first footnote -- and after the last text in the header. I can edit out the ones in the header, but I can't work out how to edit the ones in the footnote - eventually I ended up removing it altogether! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Assuming there are no actual empty paragraphs in either header or footnotes, the most likely cause is that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) has gotten set to Center and either the page is not full or there are several "Keep with next" paragraphs toward the end. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/BottomLine.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "T Brown" T Brown @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I'm editing a Word document. My two-line header keeps 'growing' to have several blank lines after the end of the title information -- which I have to edit out. I have a single footnote in my document, and that's suddenly acquired three or four blank lines *before* it, which I can't edit out at all -- leaving an inconvenient white space and throwing out the layout. What is causing this? How can I fix it? |
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In Normal view, go to View | Footnotes. In the footnote pane, choose
Footnote Separator and delete the empty paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "T Brown" wrote in message ... Apologies: I didn't make it clear, but there *are* additional empty paragraphs (4 of them) appearing after the 'footnote divider' but before the first footnote -- and after the last text in the header. I can edit out the ones in the header, but I can't work out how to edit the ones in the footnote - eventually I ended up removing it altogether! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Assuming there are no actual empty paragraphs in either header or footnotes, the most likely cause is that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) has gotten set to Center and either the page is not full or there are several "Keep with next" paragraphs toward the end. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/BottomLine.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "T Brown" T Brown @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I'm editing a Word document. My two-line header keeps 'growing' to have several blank lines after the end of the title information -- which I have to edit out. I have a single footnote in my document, and that's suddenly acquired three or four blank lines *before* it, which I can't edit out at all -- leaving an inconvenient white space and throwing out the layout. What is causing this? How can I fix it? |
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