

Here is what you may want to achieve: Keep an Eye on Your Files After this, you can click “View” tab again to switch the document view back to “Print Layout”.Select the “Footnote Separator” and you can remove the unnecessary paragraph marks. Now a horizontal pane will display at the bottom of the screen.Secondly, choose “Draft” to switch the document view.You have to know this paragraph marks are actually part of “Footnote Separator”, so you won’t be able to remove them in traditional way. You can see the paragraph marks between footnote separator and footnote text, but no matter how hard you’ve tried, you just can’t delete them. Case 2: Extra Spaces between Footnote Separator and Footnote Text The Issue In case, you can’t accept the change of the line spacing, you can choose to manually move part of the first paragraph on next page up.

This method actually distributes the unnecessary spaces to enlarge line spacing between each 2 text lines on this page. Now in “Footnote and Endnote” dialog box, select “Below text” for “Footnote”.Then right click on footnote and choose “Note Options”.Select “Justified” for “Vertical alignment”.In the dialog box, click to display the “Layout” tab.Next click the arrow button to open “Page Setup” dialog box.Firstly, go to click the button in “Paragraph” group under “Home” tab to show all unprintable symbols on the document.Or “Keep with next” is applied to this paragraph. The cause can be the first paragraph in next page is too long to be kept together on the footnote page. Yet you can guarantee there is no paragraph mark and you can do nothing about it. There can be times when you find a large blank space is right above footnotes and below the body text, such as below: Case 1: Extra Spaces between Footnote and Body Text The Issue In this article, we will illustrate 2 cases where the unnecessary spaces drive people crazy, and also their solutions. And when it comes to the use of footnote, the headache remains. Problems about spaces in Word can be annoying sometimes. In the following content, we will focus on explaining 2 ways to remove the extra spaces related to footnotes in your Word document.
