The Style Name dropdown should already show "Footnote Text", but select that from the list if it isn't there. Press Ctrl+Shift+S to open the Apply Style dialog box.If the default spacing isn't close enough, you can reduce it further by modifying the Footnote Text style. (To see if that's the case, click the ¶ button on the Home tab to see nonprinting marks, including paragraph marks. Paragraph mark at the end of each footnote. Normally, that's as close together as any paragraphs in Word will get - there should not be a single space between them unless for some reason you've included an empty If you want me to look at it, copy a sample page including a problem footnote or two, paste it into a new document, and either (a) upload it onto OneDrive or Dropbox and post a sharing link here or (b) email it to one of the addresses you'll find atīy default, the Footnote Text style is Single spaced with zero Space Above and Below. However, it isn't responsible for the paragraph not getting the style change - even if it wasn't there, the rest of The square symbol probably represents the superscript footnote number at the beginning of the paragraph, which isn't a normal character.
It includes non-zero Space Before or Space After. Besides looking for nonprinting characters by turning on the ¶ button, click in the blank space (or in the paragraph before or after the space) and press Ctrl+Shift+S to see what style is assigned there view the definition of the style to see whether Jump over the rg.Style statement and go to the End If.ĭo you mean that there is a "blank space" either before or after the footnote that appears in the debug, and that blank space isn't shrinking? That would mean that whatever is causing the space is not an empty paragraph mark with or without spaces and/or As far as I can tell from your post, that footnote paragraph should not be set to 4 pt font - that is, if you remove any leading or trailing spaces and remove any tab characters, the result still isn't just a paragraph mark (vbCr), so the If statement should