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mabecker17 - 21 Jan 2004 21:50 GMT

In a document to be published with many footnotes, we are having troubl
with the spacing between the end of the sentence and the superscrip
footnote (in the main text). Our text is justified, so we sometimes ge
odd spacing in a line, but I don't wan't the footnotes to get too fa
away from the end of the sentence. Can this be adjusted

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Jay Freedman - 22 Jan 2004 14:57 GMT

No, there is no separate setting for that spacing -- Word considers it just
another character. If you have a space character between the end-of-sentence
punctuation and the footnote mark, the justification is going to expand or
squeeze that space just like any other. The solution is to place the
footnote mark immediately after the punctuation, or replace the space with a
nonbreaking space character (Ctrl+Shift+spacebar).

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> In a document to be published with many footnotes, we are having
> trouble with the spacing between the end of the sentence and the
> superscript footnote (in the main text). Our text is justified, so we
> sometimes get odd spacing in a line, but I don't wan't the footnotes
> to get too far away from the end of the sentence. Can this be
> adjusted?

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Petra - 25 Jan 2004 18:39 GMT

occasionally I had the same problem today!! (300 pages and 800
footnotes)

word tears apart even text and footnotes where no space is (even
ctrl-shift-space was torn apart).

I copied the whole document in a new empty one (select all in normal
view, even header and footer are copied) the bug was fixed. I suppose
it happened because is was openened and saved in an older version
somewhere else.

hope this helps, petra

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