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Footnote separator moved
I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few
footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida |
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Switch into Normal View and go to View | Footnotes. A footnote pane will
open up at the bottom. Use the dropdown menu at the top of the pane to access the separators. There is a Reset button also. On 5/9/05 7:59 PM, "ilyaz" wrote: I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Daiya's instructions should work, but my experience with this is that
sometimes the footnote separator mysteriously acquires another style (one that has a first-ine or left indent), or it can happen that a first-line or left indent is applied to Normal style, and it inherits that. -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida |
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Thank you both, Daiya and Suzanne! Sure, it worked, I'm back to normal.
Ilya P.S. While playing with the footer, I discovered that changing the alignment in the footer (page number from left aligned to the central), moves the footnote separator too... Is this supposed to be so? How come they are connected? In my document, the footnotes are outside of the footer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Daiya's instructions should work, but my experience with this is that sometimes the footnote separator mysteriously acquires another style (one that has a first-ine or left indent), or it can happen that a first-line or left indent is applied to Normal style, and it inherits that. -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida |
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This shouldn't have any effect, but, to be on the safe side, make sure you
insert the page number in the footer itself (using the Insert Page Number button on the Heaer and Footer toolbar) instead of using the Insert | Page Numbers command, which puts the page number in a frame that can be inadvertently moved out of place and then displace text (also, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm; if you deleted such a page number without deleting the frame, this could be the problem). -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... Thank you both, Daiya and Suzanne! Sure, it worked, I'm back to normal. Ilya P.S. While playing with the footer, I discovered that changing the alignment in the footer (page number from left aligned to the central), moves the footnote separator too... Is this supposed to be so? How come they are connected? In my document, the footnotes are outside of the footer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Daiya's instructions should work, but my experience with this is that sometimes the footnote separator mysteriously acquires another style (one that has a first-ine or left indent), or it can happen that a first-line or left indent is applied to Normal style, and it inherits that. -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida |
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Thanks again, Suzanne! Now I know...
Ilya "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This shouldn't have any effect, but, to be on the safe side, make sure you insert the page number in the footer itself (using the Insert Page Number button on the Heaer and Footer toolbar) instead of using the Insert | Page Numbers command, which puts the page number in a frame that can be inadvertently moved out of place and then displace text (also, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm; if you deleted such a page number without deleting the frame, this could be the problem). -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... Thank you both, Daiya and Suzanne! Sure, it worked, I'm back to normal. Ilya P.S. While playing with the footer, I discovered that changing the alignment in the footer (page number from left aligned to the central), moves the footnote separator too... Is this supposed to be so? How come they are connected? In my document, the footnotes are outside of the footer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Daiya's instructions should work, but my experience with this is that sometimes the footnote separator mysteriously acquires another style (one that has a first-ine or left indent), or it can happen that a first-line or left indent is applied to Normal style, and it inherits that. -- 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. "ilyaz" wrote in message ... I'm working on a large document in MS Word 2002 SP3. There are quite a few footnotes on each page of this document. In the past, the footnote separator (a short horizontal line just above the first footnote at the bottom of page) was left aligned. However, today, I noticed that this separator moved to the right and its right end is in the center of the page. What happened? How can I restore it to it normal left aligned position? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida |
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