Adding a footnote forces text to the next page

[tina]

Hi,

I am working on a paper and under severe deadline for submission. I
have formatting problems. I had pages of text, and had to insert a
table after a certain paragraph. Doing so forces all the subsequent
text -- tables and text -- to the next page. after copying and pasting
various parts, starting new docs, etc, i discovered it is a footnote
problem. If the footnote is there, everything is forced to the next
page (except the footnote) and half a page remains blank. if footnote
is removed, all is ok. Please help and thanks so much.

Tina

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Did you create the table by using Word's Table feature, or do you have
continuous section breaks and columns in there anywhere?

Columns and footnotes don't play well--see here for a workaround:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FtnoteSpanColumns.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)
(ignore the title, it's misleading)

Alternatively, squeezing the footnote to take less text might help out--see
here for what control you have over that:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FootnoteOnDiffPage.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

 

[tina]

The tables were cut and pasted from excel.

i have continuous section breaks, but it is still forced to the next
page.

yes, there are columns. but the footnotes are not in the coulmned text,
but in the regular text above the columns.

the columns are just the two tables, in order to make them side by
side.

any help would be appreicated!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What version of Word and OS, by the way?

I assume you checked to see whether it would work with a shorter footnote
taking up less space? Because Word will not flow text around a table--it's
possible that the columns have nothing to do with it and Word is forced to
send the table to the next page because it can't fit it on that page. You
might test that by putting the problematic text into a new document where
you can safely mess with the margins and make them larger or delete the
footer, etc. If you can get it to work that way, then you know you need to
make the table a little smaller or condense the footnote or somesuch.

If it *is* the columns causing the problem, a possible workaround:

Instead of using columns to get two tables side by side, you could create
one big table with an empty borderless column in the middle, so it *looks*
like two tables. (Interestingly, Word's caption feature seems fine with
this approach.)

Sorry not to have a real fix.