Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 5, 2016)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Word allows you to locate your footnotes in a couple different places in your document. Regardless of where you place footnotes, it is possible that a long footnote could overrun the space allocated for footnotes. In such an instance, Word automatically continues the footnote on the following page.
In these cases, you can specify that Word use special wording at the bottom of the footnote area to indicate that they are continued on the next page. For instance, you might want Word to print Continued on next page... at the bottom of any footnotes that will be split. To change the continuation notice, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box.
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2018-02-04 07:09:45
Moha
How we can create two diffrent footnote line.
for example page 1 footnote seperator in right and in page two we can place in left
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