Shift to the Print Layout view of the document. Now the Notes section is displaying at the end of the document, please select Footnote Separator in the Footnotes drop-down list, select the separator line and then press the Delete key to delete it. Note: If only footnote or endnote existing in your document, ignore this step and move to step 4.Ĥ. If there are both footnotes and endnotes in your document, a Show Notes dialog box will pop up, please select an option as you need and then click the OK button. Then click References > Show Notes as below screenshot shown.ģ. In the document you will remove its footnote or endnotes separator line, click View > Draft.Ģ. You can remove footnote or endnote separator line in Word as follows.ġ. Remove footnote/endnote separator line with VBA code Remove footnote/endnote separator line in Word If you want to get rid of these separator lines, please try methods in this article. When inserting footnotes or endnotes in Word document, you will find there is always a horizontal separator line above the footnote or endnotes texts. You’ve now got rid of that empty paragraph for ALL footnotes in your document.How to remove the footnote/endnote separator line in Word document? Change the view back Print Layout ( View tab > Print Layout).
Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it.Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below.Now you can see the separator and the empty paragraph:.Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator.
A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:.Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes.You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft).You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below.You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line.
The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below. When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.
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