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Short horiz line above footer with line
I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal
line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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Short horiz line above footer with line
This sounds like the Footnote Separator. My guess is that you have an empty
footnote that hasn't been properly removed. In the document body, place the insertion point at the top of the page in question and use Find to search for ^f (the code for a footnote reference mark). When you find it, even if there seems to be nothing there, select a character or two before and after the place where Find stops and delete the selection, then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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Short horiz line above footer with line
Thank you so much, Suzanne. Yes, it appears to be an empty Footnote.
However, when I searched for ^f , nothing was found. ("Search item was not found.") I've never worked with Footnotes before, and I didn't create this document. Do you have any other suggestions? As a last resort, I may have to cover it up with a white box! I really want to remove it, though. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This sounds like the Footnote Separator. My guess is that you have an empty footnote that hasn't been properly removed. In the document body, place the insertion point at the top of the page in question and use Find to search for ^f (the code for a footnote reference mark). When you find it, even if there seems to be nothing there, select a character or two before and after the place where Find stops and delete the selection, then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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Short horiz line above footer with line
Before searching, display Hidden text, as the footnote reference may well
have been hidden (as is often done when several footnote references are combined), which would be why it didn't get deleted in the first place. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne. Yes, it appears to be an empty Footnote. However, when I searched for ^f , nothing was found. ("Search item was not found.") I've never worked with Footnotes before, and I didn't create this document. Do you have any other suggestions? As a last resort, I may have to cover it up with a white box! I really want to remove it, though. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This sounds like the Footnote Separator. My guess is that you have an empty footnote that hasn't been properly removed. In the document body, place the insertion point at the top of the page in question and use Find to search for ^f (the code for a footnote reference mark). When you find it, even if there seems to be nothing there, select a character or two before and after the place where Find stops and delete the selection, then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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Short horiz line above footer with line
Suzanne, thank you for all your help. I tried displaying the Hidden Text,
but that didn't turn up anything either. However, I fiddled around with it some more and figured it out!! I was able to place my cursor just below the line, and then I right-clicked. From the menu I chose "Go to Footnote," which took me to the character in the text that was the footnote reference. I deleted that character, and BINGO, the line went away! Thank you so much for helping me with this. Also, I see that you are in Fairhope. I am in Birmingham. I hope you are having a great day down on the bay. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Before searching, display Hidden text, as the footnote reference may well have been hidden (as is often done when several footnote references are combined), which would be why it didn't get deleted in the first place. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne. Yes, it appears to be an empty Footnote. However, when I searched for ^f , nothing was found. ("Search item was not found.") I've never worked with Footnotes before, and I didn't create this document. Do you have any other suggestions? As a last resort, I may have to cover it up with a white box! I really want to remove it, though. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This sounds like the Footnote Separator. My guess is that you have an empty footnote that hasn't been properly removed. In the document body, place the insertion point at the top of the page in question and use Find to search for ^f (the code for a footnote reference mark). When you find it, even if there seems to be nothing there, select a character or two before and after the place where Find stops and delete the selection, then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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Short horiz line above footer with line
I should have thought of that; it figures that if there's still a phantom
footnote reference there, then it should be possible to get from it to the phantom footnote! Fairhope is lovely, as usual, and I would be having a greater day if I didn't have some kind of grot that's going around. Today is, I hope, the worst day (the uncontrollable dripping, sneezing, don't get too far from a box of Kleenex day), but I'm a little bummed that I'll probably still have the chest congestion and dry cough next week and the week after for our vacation, culminating in MVP Summit March 1-4. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for all your help. I tried displaying the Hidden Text, but that didn't turn up anything either. However, I fiddled around with it some more and figured it out!! I was able to place my cursor just below the line, and then I right-clicked. From the menu I chose "Go to Footnote," which took me to the character in the text that was the footnote reference. I deleted that character, and BINGO, the line went away! Thank you so much for helping me with this. Also, I see that you are in Fairhope. I am in Birmingham. I hope you are having a great day down on the bay. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Before searching, display Hidden text, as the footnote reference may well have been hidden (as is often done when several footnote references are combined), which would be why it didn't get deleted in the first place. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne. Yes, it appears to be an empty Footnote. However, when I searched for ^f , nothing was found. ("Search item was not found.") I've never worked with Footnotes before, and I didn't create this document. Do you have any other suggestions? As a last resort, I may have to cover it up with a white box! I really want to remove it, though. Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This sounds like the Footnote Separator. My guess is that you have an empty footnote that hasn't been properly removed. In the document body, place the insertion point at the top of the page in question and use Find to search for ^f (the code for a footnote reference mark). When you find it, even if there seems to be nothing there, select a character or two before and after the place where Find stops and delete the selection, then retype the missing characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "KOConnor" wrote in message ... I'm working in a document with many sections. My footers have a horizontal line across the top, from margin to margin. In one section (a one-page section), there is another horizonal line several line spaces above the footer line, on the left side of the page, about two inches long. I cannot get to this line to delete it. When I'm working in the document text, the line appears greyed out, like the header and footer. When I click in the footer, the line darkens, but I still cannot get to it. When I Show All Paragraph marks, the lines appears in a dotted-line box. I've tried the Drawing toolbar pointer, but can't grab the line or the box it's in. I can't highlight the area. Please help! I need to remove it. Thank you. Kristin |
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