I have carriage returns in all my footnotes, after the footnote
separator bar (2 carriage returns) and before the footnotes. All
footnotes are like this as if the formatting is corrupted. I can delete
them all and put them all back in with the same format. I can change everything except I cannot select or backup over, or anyway delete those pesky horrific carriage returns. Help! I have to deliver this document
in 2 hours!
--
Maura
They're not "in" the footnotes; they're "in" the footnote separator.
The way to access that -- and change its formatting, in case you don't
like the line length or its indent or whatever -- is to switch to
Draft View, then go to Show Footnotes (I don't remember how to do that
in earlier Word, but if you have a Ribbon, it's at the lower right of
the Footnotes group of the References tab).
You then get a window at the bottom of the document window with a bar
above it, and in that bar is a dropdown from which you access the
Separator. Choose that, and (since you have your Non-Printing
Characters turned on) you'll see some stray paragraphs down there.
Just delete them.
Go back to Print View, and all is copasetic!
On Nov 30, 2:53 pm, Maura <Maura.afec...@wordbanter.com> wrote:
I have carriage returns in all my footnotes, after the footnote
separator bar (2 carriage returns) and before the footnotes. All
footnotes are like this as if the formatting is corrupted. I can delete them all and put them all back in with the same format. I can change everything except I cannot select or backup over, or anyway delete those pesky horrific carriage returns. Help! I have to deliver this document
in 2 hours!
--
Maura
On Friday, November 30, 2012 at 3:34:02 PM UTC-8, Peter T. Daniels wrote:Thanks a million Peter, spent hours trying to remove these returns, MS uninstalled my Office suite (trying to upgrade me to 365) and still couldn't offer this simple solution. November, 2020
They're not "in" the footnotes; they're "in" the footnote separator.
The way to access that -- and change its formatting, in case you don't
like the line length or its indent or whatever -- is to switch to
Draft View, then go to Show Footnotes (I don't remember how to do that
in earlier Word, but if you have a Ribbon, it's at the lower right of
the Footnotes group of the References tab).
You then get a window at the bottom of the document window with a bar
above it, and in that bar is a dropdown from which you access the Separator. Choose that, and (since you have your Non-Printing
Characters turned on) you'll see some stray paragraphs down there.
Just delete them.
Go back to Print View, and all is copasetic!
On Nov 30, 2:53 pm, Maura <Maura.afec...@wordbanter.com> wrote:
I have carriage returns in all my footnotes, after the footnote
separator bar (2 carriage returns) and before the footnotes. All footnotes are like this as if the formatting is corrupted. I can delete them all and put them all back in with the same format. I can change everything except I cannot select or backup over, or anyway delete those pesky horrific carriage returns. Help! I have to deliver this document
in 2 hours!
Peter, you are amazing, thank you!--
Maura
Thanks Peter!
On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 5:31:00 PM UTC-5, Joseph Ireland wrote:Reading this in 2022 and it just saved me. Great advice.
Thanks Peter!
Glad it's still useful after a decade and umpteen updates/upgrades!
Reading this in 2023 and it just saved me too! Great advice.
On Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 3:11:05 AM UTC-5, Phil wrote:
Reading this in 2023 and it just saved me too! Great advice.Thank you Peter! 9 March 2023 at 1:39 a.m. while I try to finish a report for work!
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