converting endnotes to footnotes ruins me

[Dissertator]

Dear all,

I am having a miserable time formatting my
dissertation...and I've spent a few hours trying to fix
this various ways before caving and asking for help...

Basically, I took all my footnotes and converted them to
endnotes so that I might highlight and format them all
similarly (same font, same size, etc). Then I converted
them back to footnotes. And then I was doomed. Please
see the following URLs for screenshots of my seemingly
hopeless problem.

http://www.cjeducator.com/pg1.jpg
http://www.cjeducator.com/pg2.jpg
http://www.cjeducator.com/pg3.jpg

For some reason, the text of my dissertation doesn't fill
up the entire page on pages where a footnote occurs. The
text generally only occupies half a page, when an endnote
is involved. It's so bizarre. I've revealed codes, I've
made sure there are no page breaks, I have tried
adjusting the Footnote and the Body styles...I am
seriously at the end of my rope. I have got to get this
fixed. I have even tried copying the text into a new
document, and then adding footnotes, and it does the same
thing. My dissertation is over 200 pages and so I can't
really start over or anything with these footnotes.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I would
be willing to try anything to get this fixed.

CJ

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi CJ,

Not sure, but from the screen shots, it looks like your footnote separator
might have a large "space after".

In "Normal view", double-click on a footnote, or choose "View > Footnotes".
In the Footnotes pane, choose "Footnotes > Footnotes separator" in the
dropdown.
Then, with the cursor in the separator, look if you see something weird
about the paragraph formatting ("Format > Paragraph > Spacing > After").

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Occasionally the Footnote Separator acquires some style other than Normal,
too, or if Normal is modified, this will affect the Footnote Separator.

 

[Dissertator]

Klaus,

Thanks very much - that worked like a charm! Thank you
for your time and help.

CJ