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.

I did notice there is a short border for the footnote, but it is WAY above the footnote text (just below the end of the TextPara3 2nd part that contains the footnote reference).
Could it be something is driving the footnote to way overspace this line, forcing it to take up room on the page and cause this page break?
If so, I do not know what it could be: the footnote paragraph style settings don't show anything weird, they don't even show any border (there is a Format/Frame.. menu option if I try to modify the style, but that doesn't bring up any menu; not sure what that one is for).

This suggests your footnote separator and/or your footnote paragraph has been formatted with an excessive amount of 'before' space and/or line spacing. Check the paragraph format for both. To access the footnote separator, switch to Draft view with 100% zoom, then click on References|Show Notes to display the footnotes in a separate window. At the top of that window is a dropdown in which you can select the footnote separator.

Alternatively, are you sure the paragraphs that are getting shunted to the next page haven't been formatted as 'keep with next'?

Similarly, if you have Section breaks with a change in the number of text columns on the page, inserting a footnote before the Section break causes everything after the Section break to be shunted to the next page.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for the tips Paul. I did not know how to see the separator before you explained how.

Unfortunately everything you suggested I look at looks OK (including separator paragraph spacing), so it sure is odd why I am getting these odd page breaks near my footnotes. I even tried to delete the footnote separator paragraph in the References/Show Notes window, and there was still a huge space above the footnote (now without the separator [the separator line was at the top of this huge space just below the body text]).

Le me know if you have any other ideas.

Thanks.

Hi strathglass,

Can you attach a document to a post with some representative data (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]