You’ve now got rid of that empty paragraph for ALL footnotes in your document.

Change the view back Print Layout ( View tab > Print Layout).

Click the X at the far right of the Footnotes mini window to close it.

Place your cursor at the end of separator line, then press Delete to remove the empty paragraph below.

I’d also like to add a half line at the end of a paragraph, rather than a full line: WordPress by default seems to just do the equivalent of a double carriage return which is rather twentieth century and doesn’t emulate what.

Now you can see the separator and the empty paragraph: I would like to reduce the spacing between normal paragraph lines IMHO, there is too much white space by default.

Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator.A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:.If you choose double spacing, that space between lines will be 24 points. If you choose single line spacing, the space between lines will be 12 points. For example, say you’re using a 12 point font for the text in your paragraph. Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes. In Word, line spacing is most commonly measured in multiples of whatever font size the paragraph is using.You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft).You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below.You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line. The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below.

When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.

Reduce spacing between lines in word