Word - Footnote too high

Good evening,
I’m waking up a bit late but I have the same problem and I just found this: http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/index.php#resolution_problemes_notes
It worked for me.

Check the print settings (margins, footer...) of your printer.
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In fact, one wonders if it is configurable. According to the help, if a footnote is too long, it will automatically continue on the next page, which means that the footnote space is limited in size, and it may also imply that its size and location are fixed.

That said, so many things are configurable that it seems quite absurd.

I just noticed something interesting:

if I copy one of the pages of my document (with footnotes), paste the text into a new document, and then print... well, it’s fine!

original version:
the text is very small, the footnotes are too high

test version:
the text is normal, the footnotes are too

Even more puzzling: The styles and formatting are exactly the same (margins, paragraphs, sections, fonts, character sizes...) but the two documents are completely different when printed. My problem is solved but I couldn't even explain why or how!!! It would be interesting to know...

Edit:
your message puzzled me eldorada "By chance, after entering your last note, didn’t you hit ENTER?"
I looked and there were spaces under my notes, and indeed there were, but when printing it makes no difference, still a blank space under the note... strange, right?

I noticed something weird:
When I place the cursor at the end of my footnote and delete the spaces, after a while the cursor freezes and a message tells me: Invalid action for footnotes. But sometimes there is no message, and I delete into the void endlessly... I really don’t understand the logic of Word.

ps: There was a comment inserted in the middle of the document that caused all the notes and text to shift!

Personally, I have Office 2007 and the writing of my footer was too high (who knows why!). I simply managed to lower it by clicking on it; my footer turned blue and in my taskbar at the top in Design, I set my footer to 0 and it's perfect. That's the only solution I found.

It's mind-boggling, I searched on forums, in Word's help, in Word itself, but nothing... I'm surely not the first to encounter this problem? Am I?

In the File tab, go to Layout, enter the Layout tab, and that's where you can adjust the margin of the header and footer. Finally, this only applies if your notes are inserted in the footer.

I tried, the problem is the same, but that's normal my notes are "footnotes" and not "footer".

Yes, these are footnotes, but Word also takes the footer into account, I suppose, so if the footer margin is reduced to the maximum, it should logically move your endnotes down by that amount.

I looked in Word's help, and at no point is there any mention of configuring this location strangely.

I did a test by setting the bottom margin to 0 cm (file/layout/margin/bottom margin), it doesn't change anything at all, my footnotes are still as high (there's still at least 5 to 7 cm of white space at the bottom of the pages, below the note)... I find this really strange.

I did another test with a different text file, in which I inserted a footnote. It is well at the bottom of the page.

The troubling thing is that the margins are set exactly the same (2.5 cm)... I'm starting to worry about my mental health! I'll keep looking and if I find it, I'll report it...

I encountered the same issue, and the solutions proposed above didn't work.
I deleted the problematic footnote and the section break, then I reinserted the footnote and then the section break.

Problem solved!

Lol stay calm ^^

By any chance, after you typed your last note, did you hit ENTER?
That would logically add an extra blank line.

Sorry I can't help you more. I’ve never made a footer note so I’m not too familiar with it.

Good luck.

Yes, there are things that are sometimes difficult to explain in Word and Excel. Often, you have to tinker to achieve the desired result.

There are still some bugs!!! But they remain accessible tools for the average person and very powerful... For an enthusiast, it's better to move on to something more advanced (like R, for example)
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