


The cause can be the first paragraph in next page is too long to be kept together on the footnote page. Yet you can guarantee there is no paragraph mark and you can do nothing about it. There can be times when you find a large blank space is right above footnotes and below the body text, such as below: Case 1: Extra Spaces between Footnote and Body Text The Issue In this article, we will illustrate 2 cases where the unnecessary spaces drive people crazy, and also their solutions. And when it comes to the use of footnote, the headache remains. Problems about spaces in Word can be annoying sometimes. Update Feb 2020: In the category of ‘very handy’ is this trick to replace multiple leading and trailling spaces at the beginning and/or end of a line: Centre the paragraph (Ctrl+e), then change the alignment back to what you had before (Ctrl+l for left aligned, Ctrl+j for fully justified).In the following content, we will focus on explaining 2 ways to remove the extra spaces related to footnotes in your Word document.

I tested it in a sentence where I’d typed two, three, four, five, and six spaces between words and it replaced each instance with a single space in one pass. If you choose it, ^w will get added to the Find field (NOTE: It’s not a valid character for the Replace field). So, where does the ^w come from and what does it represent? If you put your cursor into the Find field, then click More in the Find and Replace dialog, then click Special, you’ll see White space at the bottom of the list. NOTE: Avoid using Replace All, because ^w finds and replaces tab characters and soft hyphens-see Lene’s comment below, dated 29 March 2019.

