How do I avoid huge gaps between document text and footnotes for MS Word 2007?

I am using MS 2007 word, and im typing a report using footnotes to note my sources. What I am finding are these gaps between the text of my report and where the footnotes begin. Does anyone have a solution to remove the gaps, or an explanation of why this situation is occurring?How do I avoid huge gaps between document text and footnotes for MS Word 2007?
I suspect you have Widows and Orphans Control selected and it's causing this. A widow is the last line of a paragraph alone at the top of a page. An orphan is the reverse: a single line on the first page followed by the rest of the paragraph on the next.





The steps in Word 2002 (XP) are these:





1. Select your entire document with CTRL/A.


2. Click on the Format-%26gt;Paragraph menu item.


3. Select the Line and Page breaks tab.


4. In the pagination section, deselect ';Widow/Orphan control.';


5. Keep Lines Together probably won't be set, but if it is, deselect it also.


6. Click OK.





If you want to prevent this from happening on your next document, here are the steps, again in Word 2002/XP.





1. Click in any of the previously offending paragraphs.


2. Click on the Format-%26gt;Styles and Formatting menu item.


3. In the Styles and Formatting sidebar that pops up, find the style that's in a box (it will probably be Normal). Put the cursor in it, click the list box arrow that appears, then click Modify.


4. On the Modify Style dialog box, click the Format button, then click the Paragraph list box entry.


5. As you did above, clear the Widow/Orphan Control and Keep Lines Together check boxes.


6. Click OK to close this dialog box.


7. Click the Tools-%26gt;Organizer menu item. A dialog box with two list boxes will appear. The left-hand list box will show the styles in your document' the right-hand will show the styles in the template your document is based on (probably Normal.dot).


8. In the left-hand list box, find the style you just changed and select it.


9. The Copy%26gt;%26gt; button will enable. Click it to copy the style to the template.


10. Click Close.


11. When you close your document, you may see a warning message asking if you want to save the changes to the Global template. This is an anti-virus measure, intended to alert you that something has changed in Normal.dot. In this case, you made the change, so you want to accept it.





Any new documents created with the template will now use this style.





Hope that helps.How do I avoid huge gaps between document text and footnotes for MS Word 2007?
Thanks for the Best, and keep this procedure in mind. Someday you might trip over the right dialog box and be able to take advantage of it. Report Abuse