
If your "ruler" is visible across the top and left side of the window, "grab" the the marker indicating where the applicable margin is and drag it to where you want it.
You can also access "Page Setup" from the PRINT window when you're previewing your document. 3-On the "Margins" tab, manually change the (left) margins as necessary and make sure that "Apply to Whole document" is selected at the bottom. 2-Open "Page Setup" (there should be a small arrow to access these settings to the right of the words "Page Setup"). If not, here a couple of other options (I'm working from Word 2010 but other versions should be similar):ġ-Select the "Page Layout" tab across the top of the window. However, your interface may look slightly different in those older versions of the software. You’ve now got rid of that empty paragraph for ALL footnotes in your document.I'm not exactly sure where the problem exists but Danielle's response below should work. The steps are the same in Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word 2010.
Change the view back Print Layout ( View tab > Print Layout). is that extra space between the inner border and the value itself. Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it. Select Layout > Margins > Custom Margins. Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below. In Margins, use the Up and Down arrows to enter the values you want. Now you can see the separator and the empty paragraph:. Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator. A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:. Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes. Microsoft Word allows users to implement both standard, pre-set borders and to. You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft). If you have inserted a border into your Microsoft Word document, you may want to adjust the border to a specific size. Then click the Default button and click Yes. Change the margins for Top, Bottom, Left, and Right to 1'. You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below. To restore the original margin settings, click Margins and then click Custom Margins. This is the standard setup you’re used to seeing when you start typing in. Here are those default widths: One Column: 6.5 width for the column. When you set a Word document to use multiple columns, Word assigns a default column width that depends on the number of columns you choose. You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. Set Up Column Width Precisely with the Columns Dialog Box. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line. The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below.
When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.