Extra space above footnotes in Word 2007

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JayhawkBrandon - 12 Apr 2008 01:51 GMT

I am having a frustrating problem with Word 2007. On some pages in my
15 page document (every page with footnotes) I am getting about a
paragraph sized space above footnotes. I cannot delete the space, and
when I move the text from the next page up it just skips above the
footnote. This only happens on 2 or 3 of the pages.

Any ideas?

Screenshot:
http://imagecloset.com/11/3677a5ecc62f12d8524ce35e9ed727a6/footnote.png

and a page without the problem (same doc):
http://imagecloset.com/11/60686448ac3542fc716204ee035aa01b/footnote2.png

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 12 Apr 2008 02:03 GMT

You might get some ideas from
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

>I am having a frustrating problem with Word 2007. On some pages in my
> 15 page document (every page with footnotes) I am getting about a
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> and a page without the problem (same doc):
> http://imagecloset.com/11/60686448ac3542fc716204ee035aa01b/footnote2.png

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Pam Caswell - 12 Apr 2008 17:44 GMT

Try turning off widow and orphan control. (Word's W&O control doesn't
allow a page to end with the last line of a paragraph. This is apparently a
rule for some layout styles, but not for most bookwork, newspapers, and
magazines.) Note that if you do this, you may want to check for and
eliminate short lines at the tops of pages--though I don't think I would.

Good luck,
Pam C

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