In Word 2010, I inserted a footnote (regular single column text stream) and it cause some odd page breaks to be introduced.

For example, when I inserted the footnote near the end of paragraph 3 below, Word adds odd pagebreaks in the middle of the paragraph (placing footnote reference in the remaining part of the paragraph now on the new page), and it also inserts a page break right after the end of that paragraph.

I consider this an issue as the page before the page with the footnote, as well as the page now containing the footnote are both ridiculously short (11 lines and 8 lines respectively [both are less than 1/4 page of text now]).

Can this be fixed?

PgBrk-EXISTING
TextPara1
TextPara2
TextPara3
PgBrk-ADDED
TextPara3 (continued) -this is the part of para with added FOOTNOTE
PgBrk-ADDED
TextParaD
TextPareE
etc.