Endnote Formatting Problem

[schwine1]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have Microsoft Word For Mac
Version 11.2 (060202) 2004.

I have a set of endnotes created in Microsoft Word For Mac.
On each page of the endnotes section there is a line at the top
that is part of the endnote formatting.

The problem is that "after" the last page of the endnotes, there is still an endnote line that appears across the next two pages.

I would like to remove the endnote lines that appear across these two trailing pages.

Any tips on how to do this are greatly appreciated.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Two issues:

1) controlling the line:

Switch to View | Normal, then select View | Footnotes. In the pane at
the bottom, change the dropdown from Endnotes to Endnote Continuation
Separator. Delete the line. Or it might be the Endnote Separator, maybe
both. Endnotes should not have a line at the top of each page, by the
way, there is no bibliographic reason for the Endnote Continuation
Separator to exist at all, so you can just delete the entire thing.

2) However:

"*After* the last page of the endnotes"? That suggests something else
is wrong, there's no way that line should continue past the endnotes.
Possibly you typed a bunch of enters at the end of the last footnote and
have blank pages that aren't really blank.. Hit ¶ on the Standard
toolbar and I bet you will see a series of them at the end of the
document. Delete them or backspace them away. Or possibly you put your
bibliography/appendix in "endnote space"--what is on those last two
pages? Did it vanish when you switched to View | Normal? You probably
ought to move it, see "Text After Endnotes" here:
6. Text After Endnotes
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/footnotefaq.htm

 

[schwine1]

Okay. Thanks to your instruction, I've now gotten rid of the faded line that appeared at the top of each endnotes page.

At this point, there is only one remaining concern that I'm still struggling with.

1. At the end of my document there are two blank pages that I cannot
delete. When I try to delete them, the following message appears: "This is not a valid action for endnotes." Now I realize that Word thinks that my endnotes don't end until the bottom of the second blank page.

And yes, when I activate that end of line line symbol, the symbol appears throughout the two blank pages.

Now I'm trying to figure out why I can't backspace or delete these symbols from the two blank pages at the end of the document. Again, when I try to do so, the following error message prevents their deletion: "This is not a valid action for endnotes."

I think what I need to do at this point is declare to Word exactly where the Endnotes section ends. To do this, it seems like the following pathway would be helpful: insert / break / section break (next page).

The problem here is that all options within the "break" drop-down menu are greyed out and not selectable. I have placed the mouse cursor at the end of the Endnotes section to indicate where the section break should take place.

So at this point I'm stumped.
I can't seem to create a section break at the end of the Endnotes section, and thus, delete two blank pages that appear at the end of the document.

Thanks again for any tips.