It’s handy to have “show non-printing characters” switched on. (On Macs, go to View > Footnotes – thanks to commenter Gerard for spotting this)
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.
