ANOTHER MS WORD QUESTION: ADJUSTING BOTTOM MARGINS WITH FOOTNOTES.--
OK, Eugene got help with an MS Word problem, so I thought I'd ask for help on an MS Word question. I am having problems with pages on which there are footnotes. Only a few pages in this manuscript have footnotes, but for some reason, the bottom margins (white space below text and footnotes) on pages with footnotes are larger than on other pages. Any ideas on how to get more text on pages with footnotes, so the pages go down to the regular bottom margins?
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UPDATE: I finally got an answer. Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to give me advice, and especially to Beau, who solved my problem.
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It also sometimes helps to show the formatting marks—if something else is wrong, that might be a way to find out.
On the Layout tab, there's a setting for Headers and Footers, From Edge. That will determine the distance between the footer and the bottom of the page. The settings on the Margin tab will determine the distance between the body text and the bottom of the page.
Jim
Jim
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Your suggestion is what I tried myself before. In page setup, headers and footers are set at 0.7. Margins are set at 1.25 all around. I have a lot of internal sections for different running heads, so in response to your post, I just reset the page margins at 1.25 and header/footer margins at 0.7 for the entire document.
The problem persists.
Thanks again,
Jim
I work for a major publisher; one of my tasks has been to wrestle acceptable behavior out of Word. Basically, it can't be done: Word is not a page-layout program (like Quark) or a page-description language (like Postscript) or (my own favorite) a Turing-complete programming language (like TeX).
Our solutions are two: (1) lower our standards to what Word is capable of; (2) save as RTF and convert via Perl or Python scripts into TeX.
However, if you insist on beating your head against the wall, try the Word MVPs. They're the most knowledgable Word (if also, naturally, the most frustrated) mavens on the planet.
Regards!
choose "note options"
in the dropdown box under location,
try "Below text" instead of "bottom of page"
"Below text" still puts the footnote on the bottom of the page
but there seems to be less wasted space
www.microsoft.com /office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx#2 the space between .com and / should be closed
I think I might know the problem; I've had the same issue with the footnotes causing an entire page to be blank save a few lines at the top. I think what has happened here is that there has been a page break entered by WORD (it does it sometimes for some reason) causing the text to be forced to the next page.
To see if it is a page break, go to "Normal" rather than "Print Layout" and you should see a line there saying "page break". Delete the line.
If you want 1.25" of empty space at the bottom of every page, whether you have a footnote or not, set the footer > from Edge setting to 1.25" and the margin setting to 1.25".
If you want 0.7" of space at the bottom of every page, then set the margin and footer settings both to 0.7"
(Conversely, if you need to keep a heading with the paragraph that follows from breaking without forcing a page break, make sure "keep with next is" is turned on.
mailto:help@editorium.com
He may be able to help.
how to fix footnotes
and, yes, all the attorneys I know use WordPerfect. Where can I get a free copy?
And WordPerfect has come with a couple of computers I bought, but I didn't even try to use it, remembering the old days and that stinko Lotus spreadsheet that comes with it. (Don't tell me it has improved too?) Maybe I'm going to pull out the WordPerfect disks.
None of the suggestions work, including setting spacing exactly. The problem is not that a footnote doesn't appear on the right page. It's that not enough text is on the page and the footnote is not being printed at the bottom of the page, even though that option is selected. Nor does editing the footnote separator help, nor is the problem in the footer.
The ONLY thing that works is to eliminate the footnote and paste a line and what was in the footnote as smaller text at the bottom of the page.
What a program!
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The fix: If you are using a footnote continuation message, select Normal from the View pull-down menu, then Footnotes from the View pull-down menu, then Footnote Continuation Notice from the Footnotes pull-down menu in the footnote screen. Check to see if there are any extra returns and delete them. You can also play with the line spacing and the paragraph formatting (i.e., again making sure that Spacing…After is set to “0” and the line spacing is “Single” or exactly 12 or 14 or whatever your single spacing line height is.
(If you insist on using the footnote continuation message, you may have to set Spacing before to something other than zero to keep the message from bumping up against your footnotes, especially if your Footnote Text style is set at Space…After “0” as suggested by another reader.)
Try e-bay. I needed a wordstar filter and bought WP 11 for about ten dollars (including shipping) in order to get the filter (WordXP dropped a lot of filters).
BTW, WordXP is a lot better than prior words, especially for cut and paste work (it allows you format options on cut and past that are very useful if you are trying to get rid of the html codes, etc.).
Still, I still pine for when our local federal judges required things in WordPerfect format. PDFs just aren't the same (larger, uglier, and they won't let us use open office).
One thing that sometimes fixes Word is to work in .rtf files instead of .doc files. This both limits features and solves a lot of autoformat glitches. You might want to try that.
That did it. You fixed it.
Somehow there were extra spaces in the footnote continuation notice, which we weren't consciously using.
I had previously checked the footnote separators in the same menu and that wasn't it, but the "footnote continuation notice" is it.
I guess MS Word sometimes can be made to work, if the distributed intelligence of the internet can be brought to bear.
Thanks, Beau, and thanks to everyone else who made suggestions.