Using Zotero 5.0 with Word 2011 for Mac here.
My Zotero footnotes automatically insert 3-5 line breaks in a footnote.
So, for example the footnote starts out looking normal (initial number is superscript):
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
but then Zotero refreshes and adds unnecessary breaks:
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of
Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
I try to remove these unwanted line breaks in Word, both putting my cursor at the beginning and clicking delete, and by highlighting the whole note and pushing cmd+1 to impose single spacing, but with both methods Zotero periodically re-inserts the unwanted line breaks. I checked in the Zotero classic editor, but the line breaks do not show up there. The only workaround I found is to remove field codes when I am done with the document and edit it manually. This is not ideal.
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can fix it?
My Zotero footnotes automatically insert 3-5 line breaks in a footnote.
So, for example the footnote starts out looking normal (initial number is superscript):
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
but then Zotero refreshes and adds unnecessary breaks:
2 Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and State: The Social and Political Structures of
Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1992);
I try to remove these unwanted line breaks in Word, both putting my cursor at the beginning and clicking delete, and by highlighting the whole note and pushing cmd+1 to impose single spacing, but with both methods Zotero periodically re-inserts the unwanted line breaks. I checked in the Zotero classic editor, but the line breaks do not show up there. The only workaround I found is to remove field codes when I am done with the document and edit it manually. This is not ideal.
Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can fix it?
- This isn’t Zotero, but a Word setting. Change your view in Word to “Draft”, then from the References tab, click Show Notes. From the Dropdown, choose “Footnote separator” and delete the blank lines. Then choose “Footnote continuation separator” and also delete the blank lines. You will want to delete these in Normal.dotm or whatever template you are using.
- Thanks, @bwiernik. And sorry for a sluggish reply.
I tried what you suggested, but found that there were no blank lines in the 'Footnote continuation separator' or the 'Footnote separator'
If you're sure it's nothing in Zotero, I'll focus more on finding an issue in Word. - What happens when you insert regular footnotes in Word in between the Zotero-created footnotes. Same spacing issue or do those look right?
- Thanks @adamsmith.
The issue is inexplicably gone.
I have tested a Word footnote between two Zotero-created ones, just to be safe, and no random spaces appeared.
If it crops up again, I'll respond to this thread. - Hey @adamsmith the line break issue has re-emerged, although I cannot figure out why.
As you advised, I double checked by going into draft view and checking to make sure there were no line breaks. No change.
I also tried highlighting the footnote text and forcing single spacing with Cmd+1 in Word. That works temporarily, but then when Zotero updates the citations, the unwanted line breaks re-emerge. That's why I suspect the issue is emanating from Zotero.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for your help.
Matt - What version of Word 2011 are you on? Does every item cause issues or only specific ones?
- Thanks @adomasven and apologies for a sluggish reply.
Word 2011 for Mac version 14.7.1
In my experience, only the very first item has the unwanted line breaks. Others appear normally. - With 'item' I meant Zotero items. Do only specific Zotero items cause this or is it any one? What happens when you insert regular footnotes in Word in between the Zotero-created footnotes. Same spacing issue or do those look right?
- I see.
I have not noticed a pattern. Any item seems to be causing the issue as long as it is the first. - Could you be more specific about 'the first item'? Is this within a single footnote citation with multiple items cited, in which case, if there is only one cited item, does it not occur? Is it the first footnote in the document? On the page?
- Sure thing. When I say the first item, I mean the text of the first footnote of the entire Word document, which itself is a footnote composed entirely of a Zotero-generated citation .
I can remember these unwanted line breaks occurring when only one work is cited in the first footnote. I am unsure whether line breaks occur when there are multiple works cited in the first footnote.
I tried opening a few documents and so far there is no issue, so I cannot test it, but when/if I see the issue again I will test what happens when I have multiple or a single work cited in the first footnote. - In the hour since writing my last comment, Zotero periodically updated the citations in the Word document I had looked at. Now the first footnote contains unwanted line breaks. It is only the very first footnote where these line breaks occur. This particular footnote contains multiple Zotero-generated citations as well as a prefixes I entered into the pop up window.
- Have you noticed this in multiple documents or only this one? If you make a copy of it, remove everything but the first citation and refresh the document, do you still get these newlines? If so, could you email it to [email protected] with a link to this thread?
- I have noticed this problem in multiple documents.
I have made a copy and tried to refresh the citations. The lines have disappeared for the time being. I'll let you know if anything happens... - This issue also emerged in the third footnote of a different document. Still on page 1, but footnote no. 3.
The Zotero-generated footnote contains no prefixes or suffixes, nor any of my own edits directly in Word -- just citations for four different books and articles from my Zotero library, generated by Zotero. - Hello again
Just writing to let you know on Zotero (5.0.55.1) using Word 2011 for Mac (14.7.1), Zotero citations still serve up an unwanted line break in my footnotes on the first page of a document when Zotero automatically updates the citations.
I have tried adding trivial edits in the Classic Editor, hoping that the edits might disable automatic updates for the problem area, but this has not worked.
How to remove the footnote/endnote separator line in Word 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. If you want to get rid of these separator lines, please try methods in this article.
Jan 08, 2018 If you have both footnotes and endnotes defined in your document, Word displays the View Footnotes dialog box. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box. Click on the View Footnote Area radio button. Using the Footnotes drop-down list at the top of the Footnotes window, choose Footnote Separator. Oct 10, 2006 Click the All Footnotes box arrow, and select Footnote Separator from the drop-down list. Click on the existing separator line and press Delete. Go to Format Borders And Shading.
Remove footnote/endnote separator line in Word
You can remove footnote or endnote separator line in Word as follows.
1. In the document you will remove its footnote or endnotes separator line, click View > Draft.
2. Then click References > Show Notes as below screenshot shown.
3. If there are both footnotes and endnotes in your document, a Show Notes dialog box will pop up, please select an option as you need and then click the OK button. Here I select View footnote area.
Note: If only footnote or endnote existing in your document, ignore this step and move to step 4.
4. Now the Notes section is displaying at the end of the document, please select Footnote Separator in the Footnotes drop-down list, select the separator line and then press the Delete key to delete it. See screenshot:
5. Shift to the Print Layout view of the document.
Then you can see the separator line of footnote is removed immediately from the document.
Note: To remove the endnote separator line, you just need to check View endnote area in the above Show Notes dialog , and then select Endnote Separator in the Endnotes drop-down list.
Word Footnote Separator Line
Remove footnote/endnote separator lines with VBA code
If the above method is inconvenient for you, you can try the following VBA codes to quickly remove all separator lines of footnote or both footnote and endnote from document.
1. In the document you will remove separator line of footnote, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Module window.
VBA code: remove footnote separator line in document
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3. Press the F5 key to run the code. Then all footnotes’ separator lines are removed immediately from the document.
Note: If you want to remove all separator lines of footnote and endnote, the below VBA code can help.
VBA code: remove footnote and endnote separator lines in document
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you very much you have saved me from my boss he was like please do anything I want a good presentation and this footnotes are like a shit.thanks to you.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.If you have more than one page of footnotes, you'll also want to remove the 'Footnote Continuation Separater'. They sure make it hard to find; when a double-click might just take you to it. This did help me too, BTW.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks!
Worked for me :-)