Footnote Bar

[Atefah]

Sometimes when I am adding a footnote to a page, a small
black line appears above the footnote. The bar does not go
all the way across the page; just enough to separate it
from the rest of the text. How do I insert/delete that? I
have it on one of my documents, but when I was writting
another it wasn't there.
many thanks - atefeh

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is called the Footnote Separator. There is also a Footnote Continuation
Separator, which, by default, does go all the way across the page; it
appears only when a footnote is continued to the next page.

The way to access either of these for editing is to switch to Normal view,
then View | Footnotes. There is a dropdown list on the menu bar from which
you can select Footnote Separator. Try pressing the Reset button to see if
this brings the usual separator back. If that doesn't work, I don't know
what recourse you have except to construct it by hand using underlines or em
dashes. If you want to delete it, that's easily enough done: select it and
press Delete. But whatever choice you make is global: it will apply to *all*
footnotes in that document.

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