

(Note: the old Alt-A, R shortcut still works to open the Table Properties dialog box. You can find it by following these instructions: Place your blinking cursor where you want to insert a line in your document. On the Table Tools Layout contextual tab, in the Cell Size group, click the little arrow thingy (whose name I can never remember) to the right of "Cell Size". When the horizontal line is in a footer it is more of a censored. One Word makes this problem different for many.

Controlling cell margins for the table as a whole The cell margin is the distance between the edge of the cell (whether you are displaying borders or not) and the text.īy default, the cell margins are 0 for the top and bottom margins, and 0.19cm for the left and right margins. The better way is to control cell margins. It's annoying to do it's hard to keep consistent and it adds to the size, weight and complexity of your document. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Remove footnote/endnote separator line in Word. You can add page numbers in Word to the header or footer sections of a document using the page numbers option in the Insert menu.

If you want to get rid of these separator lines, please try methods in this article. When we press Enter to create vertical space, we are adding empty paragraphs to the document. When inserting footnotes or endnotes in Word document, you will find there is always a horizontal separator line above the footnote or endnotes texts. Don't use empty paragraphs to create extra vertical space, as this user has done Figure 2: I've displayed non-printing characters here, to see the empty paragraphs.
