Changing the Footnote Continuation Separator

If you have a very long footnote that won't entirely fit in the space allocated for footnotes on the current page, Word automatically continues the footnote on the following page. In these cases, you can specify that Word use a different footnote separator to indicate that the footnotes are a continuation from the previous page. To change the continuation separator, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you are viewing your document in Normal view or, in Word 2007, in Draft view. (Click on the Normal View icon on the status bar of the document, or choose Normal from the View menu.)
2. Select Footnotes from the View menu or, in Word 2007, display the References tab of the ribbon and click Show Notes.
3. If you are using Word 2000 or a later version, and you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.) Click on the View Footnote Area radio button and then click on OK.
4. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Continuation Separator. The current separator appears in the window.
5. Change or delete the separator, as desired.
6. When you are satisfied with the appearance of the separator, click on Close.