Line for footnotes at the end of my text--how to eliminate?

[Paul]

I have a line that looks like the line created on top of the footnotes at
the bottom of my pages--but this line is at the end of the document, and
there are no footnotes or endnotes below it. How can I get rid of it?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Is the document displayed in Draft view? If so, then I believe you are
referring to the line that marks the end of document contents. To hide it,
switch to a different view.

 

[Paul]

Stefan, thanks for replying, but no, its in print view.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007

Is the document displayed in Draft view? If so, then I believe you are
referring to the line that marks the end of document contents. To hide it,
switch to a different view.

 

[Stefan Blom]

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Stefan, thanks for replying, but no, its in print view.

 

[Paul]

OK--the instructions didn't work. I went to the paragraph section and
selected no borders, but its still there. I was able to figure out how it
got there--I earlier inserted an endnote, then deleted it, but the line is
still there. Just to make sure, I created a new endnote, and the note was
placed immediately below the line. Unfortunately, after I deleted these
endnotes, that line remains.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you just deleted the endnote and not its reference in the text, then it
is still there. Use Find to search for the endnote reference (^e) or use
Browse by Endnote; you may not be able to see it in the text, but if you
select a character before and after the position where Find stops and
delete, then replace the deleted characters, that should take care of it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Paul]

Thanks, Suzanne. That did it. I had inserted an earlier endnote, deleted its
text but forgot to delete the note itself in the main/body text. After
finding it, that original line I was complaining about was gone as well.

BTW--I wasn't able to get that sideways-greater sign. I tried using the Ctrl
key as well as shift but that didn't do it. Do I need to go into the charmap
to do this, or the Insert>Symbol chart?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

On a US keyboard, the caret (^) is Shift-6.

Thanks, Suzanne. That did it. I had inserted an earlier endnote, deleted its
text but forgot to delete the note itself in the main/body text.  After
finding it, that original line I was complaining about was gone as well.

BTW--I wasn't able to get that sideways-greater sign. I tried using the Ctrl
key as well as shift but that didn't do it. Do I need to go into the charmap
to do this, or the Insert>Symbol chart?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

On most keyboards the caret (^) is a shifted 6. For the future, remember
that the correct way to delete a footnote or endnote is to delete the
reference mark in the document body.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org