Hi,

here's me again with another weird footnote placement problem. This is Word
2000, a >200 pages book.

I have a manual next-page section break, followed by a new chapter. The last
page before the section break is half filled, with one paragraph of body
text and two footnotes. The first paragraph after the section break is
Heading1 followed by body text.

What drives me crazy is that Word doesn't place the footnotes at the bottom
of the page where it should, but some 1.5 centimeters above it, for no
reason that I can see. It does this only on that one page immediately before
the section break. When I insert dummy text to fill the page up and have a
new page inserted, the footnotes go to the bottom of the page where they
belong. I also found that when I toggle the compatibility setting under
Options-Compatibility-"Footnote Layout like in Word 6.x/95/97", on *or* off,
the footnotes will temporarily move to the correct position - only to be
back to the wrong position the next time I scroll to that page!

I can replicate the problem at other similar section breaks in the same
document, but not so far in other documents based on the same template.

There's no issue with breaking footnotes across pages (both footnotes are
anchored in the paragraph on the same page); there's no headers or footers
or graphics or frames or anything anywhere nearby that could be interfering;
none of the paragraph styles has any space-before or space-after that could
be interfering - nothing at all that I can think of.

I'm at the end of my Latin. And that manuscript must be at the publisher's
by the end of this month, camera-ready! Help!!

Lukas