From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on
That's the Footnote Continuation separator, which has to be adjusted
separately; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NoteSeparators.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Myles OB" <MylesOB(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C68E2159-4B31-436B-94EC-50964B496283(a)microsoft.com...
> Maybe I jumped the gun there, Doug! A small problem remains: almost all of
> the footnote separators are aligned now, except where a footnote has run
> from
> one page onto the next. In all such occurrences, the separator continues
> to
> jut out, but when I repeat the steps you outlined, the screen shows it as
> if
> it is aligned. Does this make sense?
>
> "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
>
>> Change to Draft View and then on the Reference tab of the ribbon, click
>> on
>> the Show Notes button in the Footnotes section of the ribbon and in the
>> top
>> border of the Footnotes pane that appears at the bottom of the screen,
>> select Footnote Separator from the drop down list and modify the left
>> indent
>> of the paragraph in which the separator appears.
>>
>> If you are using Word 97 - 2003, after switching to the Draft View,
>> select
>> Footnotes from the View menu to access the Footnotes pane.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
>> services on a paid consulting basis.
>>
>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>>
>> "Myles OB" <Myles OB(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9E954B32-432E-4B39-8AA3-AACD6F2380D4(a)microsoft.com...
>> > How do I correct the left indent on the line that separates my
>> > footnotes
>> > from
>> > the main text?
>> > When I brought all my text (body and footnotes) in by a couple of cms,
>> > this
>> > line remained where it was. Now it's jutting out from the rest of the
>> > doc.
>> > Thanks
>>
>