Overcoming badly formatted footnote: can't join lines into one Paragraph

[KDuncan]

I am trying to proofread a long document. In Chicago Manual of Sytle formatting, if you put multiple tihngs into a footntet; it shoujld be indentedon the first line, but every other line should be flush left. The project I am working on was done by someone who apparently doesn't know this. There are several items in one footnote, and they generally look indented. I turned on the featues in Word 2019 to see the formatting. I see paragraph marks whewre none should exist, but no matter what I do, like deleting the paragraph mark or cutting and pasting it as plain text, I cannot make this work. There are lines sticking out in numerous footnotes that are like footnotes themselves, but with no number.


Hw can I force MS Wprd to do what I need? I've mever seen a document that was so messed up, and I've graded a ton of papers. It is not a student paper. It is a book: The author can read Russian, Latvian, Greek, and Latin, so he shoujld have been able to follow CMOS. I don't know what is up with the author.