
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:. From here, you can control exactly how much space there is. From the drop-down menu, you can also select Line Spacing Options to open the Paragraph dialog box. Select Add Space Before Paragraph or Remove Space After Paragraph from the drop-down menu. Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator. Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing command on the Home tab. 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. He wonders if it is possible for Word to put 'space after' a table. 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. The paragraph following the table ends up being too close to the table, and Brian wants some space between the table and a 'body text' paragraph following the table. If the changes are not sticking please write back:Ĭhances are good that you have an Add-In or corporate policy that is blocking the saving of your changes to the normal template.Īdd-Ins in Microsoft Word Volunteering to "pay forward" to return help I've received in the Microsoft user community.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. On the Paragraph dialog box, select the settings you want to change (for Indents and Spacing and Line and Page Breaks, as desired).
Change Default Settings by Suzanne Barnhill Make sure the Home tab is active and click the Paragraph Settings button in the lower-right corner of the Paragraph section.Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly.If you are using Word much, you owe it to yourself to learn about styles. The spacing that annoys you is not double-spacing, but rather 1.15 spacing.
If prompted about saving changes to the template, OK saving changes. Note that your paragraph spacing is changed.These are the instructions that you have to follow to make the double space in the lines of selected paragraphs. After that, click on the icon of the line spacing and then, click on the 2 or double to make the double space in the selected paragraph. Change the line spacing to single (from multiple: 1.15). So, you have to select the paragraph which you want to double space.First Line Indent Indents just the first line of a paragraph a specified amount. Click on the Format button of the dialog box and choose paragraph. Open the file Indenting and Spacing Review Exercise.In the dialog box that pops up, fill in the radio button for New Documents based on this template (toward the bottom of the dialog box).Right-Click on the Normal style in your Quick Styles gallery on the Home Tab.Click in the paragraph that you just created.Type the following line and press enter:.