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Old 03-15-2021, 05:34 PM
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A related question to https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...very-page.html.

My colleague and I are both using MS Office 2019. Yet, when he opens this very same file, on several pages of the 100+ page file, he gets an unwanted line space between the lowermost footnote, and the top of the footer. And on those pages, when he clicks on show all hidden symbols, he sees a paragraph symbol there. But when I open the very same file on my computer, that unwanted line space is not present. Shouldn't the file appear the same regardless of which computer it is opened on, so long as it is the same version of Office?
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Old 03-15-2021, 05:56 PM
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Swarup,

Your question is related in that it arose out of the same project as your previous question but it deals with a very different issue. I split it into a new thread. That way, other users of this forum are more likely to find the solution to their questions. You are also more likely to get more and better answers with a new thread addressing your new issue.

It seems to be rare that a document opened on different computers looks the same. Here are two web pages by a couple of Word MVPs examining this.
This has been the situation as long as there has been Word. If you want someone else to see the same thing, send a pdf.
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It seems to be rare that a document opened on different computers looks the same. Here are two web pages by a couple of Word MVPs examining this.
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This has been the situation as long as there has been Word. If you want someone else to see the same thing, send a pdf.
Charles, your response does not address what the OP reports:
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My colleague and I are both using MS Office 2019. Yet, when he opens this very same file, on several pages of the 100+ page file, he gets an unwanted line space between the lowermost footnote, and the top of the footer. And on those pages, when he clicks on show all hidden symbols, he sees a paragraph symbol there. But when I open the very same file on my computer, that unwanted line space is not present.
Changes in layout due to differences in printer drivers cannot cause blank paragraphs to appear/disappear.
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I'm thinking that perhaps there is a blank paragraph there and the style definitions might be updating on open. Can you post a sample document with pretty much everything deleted from the file except a couple of paragraphs with footnotes?
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Thanks for taking interest in the question, and apologies for the delayed reply. Yes, it seemed to me that between two computers it should not be that in one an erroneous line space with a paragraph symbol appears, while it does not in the other computer. I will try to create a sample file containing the section in question, and post it here.
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The first two images (image1, image2) are of my colleague's computer. It shows a line space between the footnote and the footer in image 1, and with show symbols selected in image2, it shows the para marker. The second two images (image3, image4) are of my computer with the exact same file open. Image3 shows there is no line space between the footnote and the footer. And image 4 shows there is no para marker with all symbols shown.
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A Word file, not a screenshot, please.
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Here attached is the docx file of the same. This is the page which shows up as demonstrated in the print screen files in my previous post.
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The only plausible explanations I can think of are that your colleague has:
a) edited the document; or
b) a faulty Office installation.
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I would also suspect your colleague inadvertently added a paragraph mark after the footnote.

It might be conceivable that the language version of Word or Windows has an effect but I can't verify that at all. Does your colleague use the same language version of Word as you do?
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I don't think it is that my colleague edited the document to be like this, or inadvertently added a paragraph mark after the footnote. The reason for my belief is that he copy-pasted his version of the file onto a flash drive, and I then took the flash drive and opened that very file on my computer. The paragraph mark is not present when I open the file in my computer. So by this we know it is the exact same file we are comparing, and not two different versions of the file. The same file when opened on his computer show the paragraph mark, and when opened on my computer it does not.

So perhaps it is that his MS Word 2019 has become corrupted in some way?

I'll just mention here, although I don't think this should account for the difference: His computer is an imac, and he has parallels installed on it, and within parallels he is running Word 2019. But so far as I know, Parallels accurately reproduces the native Windows environment, and if that is the case then using Word in Parallels should not create any such change in the file when opening it.

As for the language version of Windows and Word, as per my understanding we are both using the English language version of the software. I have personally set up the Hindi language on both computers, and that too only for typing; we do not have Hindi set up to be the language of the OS or of the Word program in either computer.
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So what happens if your colleague deletes the spurious paragraph, save, then sends the document back to you?
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If your document has two or more footnotes on the same page, does the extra paragraph appear under EACH footnote or just on the last one on the page?

Does the same issue appear on your colleague's machine if they use a Mac version of Word?
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