For example, academic journals will usually have some form of Guidelines for Authors which will lay out (sometimes) the font, heading styles, reference styles and footnote styles that you are expected to use. The main reason to change your footnote or endnote numbering style is because of the style guide of whatever you’re writing the document for.
Why would I want to change my footnote or endnote numbering style? while editing someone’s work, or when you change your mind, or when you’re working to a particular journal’s style and need to amend something you’ve already written) in Word 2007, Word 2010 and Word 2013. Update: Commenter GE suggests that copying and pasting your entire document into a new file may also get rid of the problem.As part of my series on footnotes and endnotes, here’s how to change your footnote and endnote numbering styles on the go (e.g. Shameless plug for my new blog, where I continue to write posts about life, design, usability, the tech industry, language, cooking and other little geeky things. If this was helpful, let me know in a comment! P.S.
Turns out this is caused by something called a footnote separator which you have to go to Draft mode (under the View tab in MS Word 07 and up) to edit it. It was wreaking havoc on my formatting and turning all my tables into multiple-paged impossible-to-read clusters of cells. Today while editing my 40-page behemothof a PW report (before adding all figures, tables and double-spacing and enlarging the fonts) I was unlucky enough to encounter this issue:Īfter the footnote divider line, but before the footnotes themselves, there would be a huge expanse of blank space. It’s frustrating having programs screw up on you when there’s a pressing deadline to meet.
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