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?

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

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"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?

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?

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?