[clive]

I am currently also writing a book that is currently 421 pages long. From
time to time I get the number 421421 printed at about the point were a
footnote separator should be. (When the book was shorter it would insert
whatever the total numbe of pages where - twice over.) Originally it replaced
the footnote separator on the second page when a footnote spilled over so I
spent considerable time rearranging the pages to avoid the spill over.
However now they often appear regardless of whether there is a footnote or
footnote spill over or not. This document was originally started in .doc
format and I found that by changing to .docx format most of these numbers
would disappear (but not all). However unfortunately this change resulted in
my many graphs being spoilt - an even worse problem (!) so I would prefer to
stay in the .doc mode.
My current software is Word 2007. I cannot find Footnotes (references) in
the view tab as suggested earlier.
I would be very pleased to hear from someone who has come across this
problem and found an answer to it.

"grammatim" wrote:

I once had a book-length document that kept adding empty paragraphs to
the Footnote Separator. Every so often I had to open it up and delete
them. It's never happened in any other document, and the only unusual
thing about it was that there was a lot of Hebrew in the footnotes
(but not in the text). Fortunately, it didn't automatically happen
every time the document was opened, and the production pdf could be
successfully produced. (Yeah, that was a publisher who made camera-
ready copy in Word.)

On Feb 10, 9:38 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The most common cause of this is that Spacing After has been added to Normal
style (which the separators use). Alternatively, if there are actually extra
empty paragraphs, then you may have pressed Enter while you were editing the
separator.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Henrik" wrote in message

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I have the problem that the empty lines below the footnote separator keep
creating themselves... Why, and how do I avoid them?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

In Normal view (Draft view in Word 2007), choose View | Footnotes
(References | Show Notes in Word 2007). On the toolbar in the footnote
pane,
there is a list box. Select Footnote Separator. You can then modify the
formatting of the separator as needed.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Formating footnote separator line" Formating footnote separator
wrote in message
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How do you format the footnote separator line. The separator line has
two
extra lines above the footnote text and I want to get rid of tthem but
I
can't figure out how to remove them-