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Footnote Separator Line
How do you format the footnote separator line. The separator line has two
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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 ... 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 |
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This is useful, thank you. I have a related problem: additional lines keep
popping up after the separator line -- I have no idea why. Would you know, and how to prevent it? "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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 USA http://word.mvps.org "Henrik" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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"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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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"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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than
once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- |
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Thanks Suzanne,
This is a 'legacy document' started in the early 2000's which as a .doc document appears in compatibility mode in Word 2007. From your comments below I attempted to remove the page numbers but to do that I had take it out of compatibility mode by changing it to a .docx format. Of course in Word 2007 the only mechanism to remove the page numbers was through the format header tab and this did not actually remove the page numbers. However the change to ..docx format corrected the separator line in all but one case. The other rows of numbers not directly associated with a reference number were also removed. The chart problem mentioned that occured last time I converted to .docx was now restricted to just one chart which although set to align with the left hand margin was actually aligning to a line 5.5cms to the right of the left margin with the result that the right hand side of the chart lay outside of the page. Returning to the .doc format corrected the chart position and this time left the separator bars the same as in the .docx document...i.e. just one row of numbers replacing one separator bar - except for one case. This was the only case where the first reference had been carried over from the previous page. Unless you can suggest how that can be corrected I will try to rearrange the document so that this carry over is removed. Thanks, Clive Thanks Clive "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- . |
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Thanks Suzanne, This is a 'legacy document' started in the early 2000's which as a .doc document appears in compatibility mode in Word 2007. From your comments below I attempted to remove the page numbers but to do that I had take it out of compatibility mode by changing it to a .docx format. Of course in Word 2007 the only mechanism to remove the page numbers was through the format header tab and this did not actually remove the page numbers. However the change to ..docx format corrected the separator line in all but one case. The other rows of numbers not directly associated with a reference number were also removed. The chart problem mentioned that occured last time I converted to .docx was now restricted to just one chart which although set to align with the left hand margin was actually aligning to a line 5.5cms to the right of the left margin with the result that the right hand side of the chart lay outside of the page. Returning to the .doc format corrected the chart position and this time left the separator bars the same as in the .docx document...i.e. just one row of numbers replacing one separator bar - except for one case. This was the only case where the first reference had been carried over from the previous page. Unless you can suggest how that can be corrected I will try to rearrange the document so that this carry over is removed. Thanks, Clive Thanks Clive "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- . |
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From your description, you need to edit the Footnote Continuation Separator.
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NoteSeparators.htm FWIW, anything that appears in the header/footer can be deleted by selecting it and deleting it (when the header and footer are open). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, This is a 'legacy document' started in the early 2000's which as a .doc document appears in compatibility mode in Word 2007. From your comments below I attempted to remove the page numbers but to do that I had take it out of compatibility mode by changing it to a .docx format. Of course in Word 2007 the only mechanism to remove the page numbers was through the format header tab and this did not actually remove the page numbers. However the change to .docx format corrected the separator line in all but one case. The other rows of numbers not directly associated with a reference number were also removed. The chart problem mentioned that occured last time I converted to .docx was now restricted to just one chart which although set to align with the left hand margin was actually aligning to a line 5.5cms to the right of the left margin with the result that the right hand side of the chart lay outside of the page. Returning to the .doc format corrected the chart position and this time left the separator bars the same as in the .docx document...i.e. just one row of numbers replacing one separator bar - except for one case. This was the only case where the first reference had been carried over from the previous page. Unless you can suggest how that can be corrected I will try to rearrange the document so that this carry over is removed. Thanks, Clive Thanks Clive "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- . |
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From your description, you need to edit the Footnote Continuation Separator.
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NoteSeparators.htm FWIW, anything that appears in the header/footer can be deleted by selecting it and deleting it (when the header and footer are open). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, This is a 'legacy document' started in the early 2000's which as a .doc document appears in compatibility mode in Word 2007. From your comments below I attempted to remove the page numbers but to do that I had take it out of compatibility mode by changing it to a .docx format. Of course in Word 2007 the only mechanism to remove the page numbers was through the format header tab and this did not actually remove the page numbers. However the change to .docx format corrected the separator line in all but one case. The other rows of numbers not directly associated with a reference number were also removed. The chart problem mentioned that occured last time I converted to .docx was now restricted to just one chart which although set to align with the left hand margin was actually aligning to a line 5.5cms to the right of the left margin with the result that the right hand side of the chart lay outside of the page. Returning to the .doc format corrected the chart position and this time left the separator bars the same as in the .docx document...i.e. just one row of numbers replacing one separator bar - except for one case. This was the only case where the first reference had been carried over from the previous page. Unless you can suggest how that can be corrected I will try to rearrange the document so that this carry over is removed. Thanks, Clive Thanks Clive "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if you may have entered a PAGE and/or NUMPAGES field more than once. If you used Insert | Page Numbers instead of the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar or the Page X of Y AutoText entry on the toolbar, or if you edited the page number that is inserted by Insert | Page Numbers, then you have the fields in a frame, and it is all too easy to get more than one of these. If they "wander" (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm), then they could all too easily get mixed up with your footnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "clive" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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- . |
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