When Jim prints his document, the footnotes appear as they should at the bottom of each page. Just above the footnotes and below the page's text is the footnote separator. It lines up with the indented first line of a normal paragraph. Jim would rather have the footnote separator align to the left column, rather than being indented.
The footnote separator is inserted, automatically, but Word in its own paragraph. As a paragraph, you can easily format it just as you would any other paragraph. Follow these steps:
- Make sure you are viewing your document in Normal view. (Click on the Normal View icon on the status bar of the document or choose Normal from the View menu.)
- Select Footnotes from the View menu.
- If you are using Word 2000 or a later version and you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button and then click on OK. (See Figure 1.)
- Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator.
- Use Word's regular formatting tools to change the paragraph indentation on the separator.
- Click on Close.
Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box.
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- Apr 14, 2017 Choose to view either footnote or endnote area, then click 'OK'. Now let's choose 'View footnote area' first. A note pane shall open at the bottom of the screen. Click the drop-down button to select 'Footnote Separator'. Then click to have the separator in selection. Press either 'Backspace' or 'Delete' to remove the.
- Oct 10, 2006 Click the All Footnotes box arrow, and select Footnote Separator from the drop-down list. Click on the existing separator line and press Delete. Go to Format Borders And Shading.
When Jim prints his document, the footnotes appear as they should at the bottom of each page. Just above the footnotes and below the page's text is the footnote separator. It lines up with the indented first line of a normal paragraph. Jim would rather have the footnote separator align to the left column, rather than being indented.
The footnote separator is inserted, automatically, but Word in its own paragraph. As a paragraph, you can easily format it just as you would any other paragraph. Follow these steps:
- Make sure you are viewing your document in Normal view. (Click on the Normal View icon on the status bar of the document or choose Normal from the View menu.)
- Select Footnotes from the View menu.
- If you are using Word 2000 or a later version and you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button and then click on OK. (See Figure 1.)
- Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator.
- Use Word's regular formatting tools to change the paragraph indentation on the separator.
- Click on Close.
Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box.
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- Apr 14, 2017 Choose to view either footnote or endnote area, then click 'OK'. Now let's choose 'View footnote area' first. A note pane shall open at the bottom of the screen. Click the drop-down button to select 'Footnote Separator'. Then click to have the separator in selection. Press either 'Backspace' or 'Delete' to remove the.
- Oct 10, 2006 Click the All Footnotes box arrow, and select Footnote Separator from the drop-down list. Click on the existing separator line and press Delete. Go to Format Borders And Shading.
In the Find what box, enter either ^f for footnote or ^e for endnote. Alternatively, you can enter these symbols by clicking the More button to expand the dialog box, clicking Special, and choosing either Endnote Mark or Footnote Mark in the list. In Word 2016 for Mac, click the arrow at the bottom of the Find and Replace dialog box to show all.
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While the above works just fine, there is one other thing you might want to keep in mind. By default, the Footnote Separator and the other separator lines used by footnotes and endnotes all use the Normal style. If these lines start showing some strange formatting characteristics, it is more than likely because you've made some changes in how the Normal style is defined. Besides the steps already outlined, there are two other ways around this problem.
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First, you can make a personal rule that you never use the Normal style for any of your regular document text. Pick another style—perhaps Body Text—or create your own custom styles to use for your text. That way the Normal style remains unchanged and you won't have unintended consequences such as you see with the Footnote Separator line.
The second approach is to define a custom style that you intend on using for your separator lines. You can then, within the footnote area, apply the style to the separator lines. In this way you can use the Normal style for other purposes, and as you change that style it won't affect the custom style you applied to the separator lines. (Of course, if the custom style is based on the Normal style, you might get some 'trickle down' formatting that affects how the custom style looks whenever you make changes to the Normal style. The solution is to make sure that your custom styles are not based on the Normal style.)
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Additional information about formatting the Footnote Separator and other separators can be found at the Word MVP site: Rollercoaster creatorunblocked evrything.
