Preventing Overflow/Continuation of Footnotes

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MJG - 12 May 2008 00:10 GMT

Is it possible to force MS Word 2003 to restrict a footnote's text to the
page on which the citation occurs?

Thanks very much,

MJG

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grammatim - 12 May 2008 04:48 GMT

Delete part of the footnote?

Word will be happy to move an entire footnote to the next page, and it
will take with it the line of text with the footnote reference in it.
You'll then have a great deal of blank space at the bottom of the
previous page.

Put the cursor in the footnote, go to Format > Paragraph, and on the
second tab, check "Keep Lines Together."

> Is it possible to force MS Word 2003 to restrict a footnote's text to the
> page on which the citation occurs?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 12 May 2008 05:02 GMT

See the article "Why do my footnotes sometimes end up on a different page
from their references in the text?" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FootnoteFAQ.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Is it possible to force MS Word 2003 to restrict a footnote's text to the
> page on which the citation occurs?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> MJG

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