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How to decrease space between text and footnotes?
When in Draft mode, you need to click on Show Notes in the Footnotes section of the References tab of the ribbon and then select the Footnote Separator from the dropdown at the top of the footnotes pane and format the paragraph to remove the space before it.
How to make footer take up less space?
For the most part it is these two settings—Bottom on the Margins tab and Footer on the Layout tab—that together define the distance between the body text and the footer text. You can reduce the distance between the text and the footer by decreasing the Bottom setting and/or increasing the Footer setting.
On the Insert tab select Footer > Edit Footer. Look towards the bottom of the document, which will show the Position of the footer. You can change the height by reducing the value in the Footer from Bottom section. You can also accomplish this (if your Ruler is visible) by dragging the footer section down.
Do footnotes take up more space?
Yes, footnotes generally count toward page count. Footnotes are found at the bottom of the page and don’t take up much of the page space in most instances. While it’s relatively easy to exclude footnotes from a word count, it’s much more difficult to exclude them from a page count.
Double click on the footer, then head to the “Layout” tab. In the “Paragraph” section you can change spacing.
Why are my footnotes taking up so much space?
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. Go to the View tab, then choose Draft. In the drop-down list that appears in the Footnotes area, choose Footnote Separator.
What font size should footnotes be?
Fonts must be 10, 11, or 12 points in size. Superscripts and subscripts (e.g., formulas, or footnote or endnote numbers) should be no more than 2 points smaller than the font size used for the body of the text.