
#HOW TO ADD FOOTNOTE LINE SEPARATOR HOW TO#
This must be possible, I just can't see how to do it. In other issues of WordTips you learned that you can place them at the end of the text on a page, or at the bottom of the page itself. Log in to get rid of this advertisement I'm trying to get a separator line above footnotes in Libre Office Writer 6.2.3.2.

The solution is to make sure that your custom styles are not based on the Normal style.If you are using footnotes in Word, you have control over where they appear in your document.

(Of course, if the custom style is based on the Normal style, you might get some "trickle down" formatting that affects how the custom style looks whenever you make changes to the Normal style. If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes (Word 2007) or Show Notes (Word 2010) dialog box.

In this way you can use the Normal style for other purposes, and as you change that style it won't affect the custom style you applied to the separator lines. You can then, within the footnote area, apply the style to the separator lines. The second approach is to define a custom style that you intend on using for your separator lines. That way the Normal style remains unchanged and you won't have unintended consequences such as you see with the Footnote Separator line. Pick another style-perhaps Body Text-or create your own custom styles to use for your text. Besides the steps already outlined, there are two other ways around this problem.įirst, you can make a personal rule that you never use the Normal style for any of your regular document text. If these lines start showing some strange formatting characteristics, it is more than likely because you've made some changes in how the Normal style is defined. By default, the Footnote Separator and the other separator lines used by footnotes and endnotes all use the Normal style. While the above works just fine, there is one other thing you might want to keep in mind. Use Word's regular formatting tools to change the paragraph indentation on the separator.The current separator appears in the window, and the insertion point should be within the separator. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator.How do I reset footnote numbers in Word Restarting Footnote Numbering after Page Breaks Display the References tab of the ribbon.

Click the All Footnotes box arrow, and select Footnote Separator from the drop-down list. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button. How do you add a footnote separator in Word Go to View Footnotes.To delete the footnote continuation separator, just choose. Note that you can delete the separator and replace it with a paragraph border if you want to. If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. In the Footnotes box, choose 'Footnote separator.' To make this line longer, you can copy it and paste in a second line.Display the References tab of the ribbon.(Click on the Draft View icon on the status bar of the document.) Make sure you are viewing your document in Draft view.As a paragraph, you can easily format it just as you would any other paragraph. The footnote separator is inserted, automatically, by Word in its own paragraph. Jim would rather have the footnote separator align to the left column, rather than being indented. It lines up with the indented first line of a normal paragraph. Just above the footnotes and below the page's text is the footnote separator. When Jim prints his document, the footnotes appear as they should at the bottom of each page.
