Fit Footnote Text For Free

Once you're in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes. Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator. Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below. Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it.

By default, the Footnote Reference character style is defined as Superscript. Select one of your footnote references (in text or in the footnote), right-click, and choose Style... Click Modify, then Format, then Font and make sure that the box for Superscript is checked.

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.

Using the Notes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. Word displays the current separator in the window. Change or delete the separator, as desired. When you are satisfied with the appearance of the separator, close the footnote window.

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.

If you want to change the formatting of the footnote text at the bottom of the page, select the Footnote Text Style. Click Modify, and then change the formatting options (font, size, and so on). For even more formatting options, click the Format button in the lower-left corner.

The spaces are probably because you have either an empty paragraph or a line break in the footnotes concerned. Try clicking where the spaces are then hitting the Backspace key.