Provided you deleted the footnote correctly (by deleting the reference mark
in the document body), the separator should not still be there. The fact
that it is suggests that there is some residue of the footnote remaining. At
a minimum, display nonprinting characters so you can see what you're dealing
with. You may need to search the document for ^f (footnote reference mark)
to find where the elusive footnote is hiding.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org