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Make sure you are viewing your document in Draft view.

To change the footnote separator, follow these steps: The default separator is a solid line, but you can either change or delete the footnote separator, as desired. Regardless of the placement, Word can print a separator between your main document text and the footnotes. In other issues of WordTips you learned that you can place them at the end of the text on a page, or at the bottom of the page itself. Update: Commenter GE suggests that copying and pasting your entire document into a new file may also get rid of the problem.If you are using footnotes in Word, you have control over where they appear in your document. Shameless plug for my new blog, where I continue to write posts about life, design, usability, the tech industry, language, cooking and other little geeky things. If this was helpful, let me know in a comment! P.S. Go back to View and switch back to Print Layout.Repeat for the other one – I think it was Continuous Footnote Separator.It’s handy to have “show non-printing characters” switched on. Delete any extra spaces, carriage returns etc.In the drop-down list that appears in the Footnotes area, choose Footnote Separator.(On Macs, go to View > Footnotes – thanks to commenter Gerard for spotting this) Go to the References tab and click Show Footnotes.Turns out this is caused by something called a footnote separator which you have to go to Draft mode (under the View tab in MS Word 07 and up) to edit it. It was wreaking havoc on my formatting and turning all my tables into multiple-paged impossible-to-read clusters of cells. Today while editing my 40-page behemothof a PW report (before adding all figures, tables and double-spacing and enlarging the fonts) I was unlucky enough to encounter this issue:Īfter the footnote divider line, but before the footnotes themselves, there would be a huge expanse of blank space. It’s frustrating having programs screw up on you when there’s a pressing deadline to meet.