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How do I decrease the size of the footnote area in Word?
I'm using word 2003 and I don't know how to decrease the footnote area. When
I insert footnotes, word automatically leaves a lot of space above them that I cannot use to write the regular text. I would like the footnote separator to be just above the footnotes but I can't find how to do this. |
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1. Make sure footnote placement is "Bottom of page": On the Insert
menu, click Reference, and then click Footnote (in Word 97/2000, it's just InsertFootnote). Click the All Footnotes tab. Make sure "Place at" is set to "Bottom of page". Click OK, and then click Close. 2. Make sure no spacing has been added to the footnote separator: Click Normal on the View menu. Click ViewFootnotes. In the Footnote pane, click "Footnote Separator". Choose FormatParagraph. Click the Indents and Spacing tab. If you see anything but 0 (zero) for Spacing Before and Spacing After, change it to 0. And make sure Line Spacing is set to "Single". Click OK to close the dialog box. 3. Close the Footnote pane. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pistaccio" wrote in message ... I'm using word 2003 and I don't know how to decrease the footnote area. When I insert footnotes, word automatically leaves a lot of space above them that I cannot use to write the regular text. I would like the footnote separator to be just above the footnotes but I can't find how to do this. |
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Hi Stefan,
Thanks a lot for your reply but I had already done all the things you mention and still had the problem. Do you have any other idea? |
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Make sure that the footnotes don't contain any empty paragraphs: Click
the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to turn on display of nonprinting marks. If you see any unnecessary paragraph marks (¶) in the footnotes, delete those. For example: 1 This is my first footnote.¶ ¶ -- Place the cursor before this paragraph mark and press BACKSPACE. 2 This is my second footnote.¶ Another thing to check is that the Footnote Text paragraph style has Line Spacing set to "Single" and that Spacing Before and/or After are both set to either a small amount (say 2-4 pt) or to 0 (zero). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pistaccio" wrote in message ... Hi Stefan, Thanks a lot for your reply but I had already done all the things you mention and still had the problem. Do you have any other idea? |
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Hi Stefan,
Thanks for replying again. There were no paragraphs signs, I had checked that already. Anyway, it seems it was something wrong with that particular document because I selected all and copied it into a new document and there the footnotes didn't leave so much space beneath them. It was still not perfect but way better and the rest of the problem, I discovered, came from some "spaces" in the footer section. I still don't know why copying the whole stuff into a new document was able to solve this but it did... Thanks for your help anyway |
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Anyway, it seems it was something wrong with that particular
document because I selected all and copied it into a new document and there the footnotes didn't leave so much space beneath them. Documents sometimes get corrupted. Copying the contents (except for the final paragraph mark) into a new document is one of the fixes covered in the article about corruption at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm. It was still not perfect but way better and the rest of the problem, I discovered, came from some "spaces" in the footer section. What kind of spaces are you referring to? How did you manage to delete them? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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