Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated July 13, 2024)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365
Nuala has a document that uses endnotes. However, before the "Notes" heading for the endnotes, there are four or five hard returns that she cannot get rid of. This means her endnotes begin about halfway down the page, which is not where she wants them to begin.
This is actually rather easy to fix once you understand that Word uses what it calls a "separator" that is automatically added between the main body of your document and start of the endnotes. Here's how to display the endnote separator:
Chances are good, in Nuala's case, that the separator has multiple hard returns within it, and because non-printing characters are displayed, you should be able to see them in the Endnotes window. Delete the hard returns (they look like backwards P characters) and, when you are done making changes in the separator, close the Endnotes window by clicking the X at the upper-right corner of the window.
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