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.
Remove footnote/endnote separator line in Word
Remove footnote/endnote separator line with VBA code
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.
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
Sub DeleteTheFootnoteSeparator()
'Updated by ExtendOffice 20181112
If ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count < 1 Then Exit Sub
If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdNormalView
Else
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End If
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View
If .Type = wdPrintView Or .Type = wdWebView Or _
.Type = wdPrintPreview Then
ActiveWindow.View.SeekView = wdSeekFootnotes
Else
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnotes
End If
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnoteSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnoteContinuationSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
With .ParagraphFormat
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceMultiple
.LineSpacing = LinesToPoints(0.06)
End With
End With
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
End Sub3. 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
Sub DeleteTheFootnoteSeparator()
'Updated by ExtendOffice 20181112
If ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count < 1 Then Exit Sub
If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdNormalView
Else
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End If
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View
If .Type = wdPrintView Or .Type = wdWebView Or _
.Type = wdPrintPreview Then
ActiveWindow.View.SeekView = wdSeekFootnotes
Else
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnotes
End If
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnoteSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneFootnoteContinuationSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
With .ParagraphFormat
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceMultiple
.LineSpacing = LinesToPoints(0.06)
End With
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneEndnoteSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
End With
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneEndnoteContinuationSeparator
With Selection
.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
.TypeBackspace
.TypeBackspace
With .ParagraphFormat
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceMultiple
.LineSpacing = LinesToPoints(0.06)
End With
End With
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
End SubBest Office Productivity Tools
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