There's a gap at the bottom of the page

Geminiguy90028

When using footnotes I notice that sometimes there is a gap at the bottom of the page and the paragraph continues on the top of the next page. To fix this I copy/pasted reference links after the citations. The http: link was long enough to drop the text one line. Dropping enough lines seemed to fix the problem for one page, but then 2 pages down there was another gap.

I tried typing within the gap but it would just drop down to the top of the next page. I'm not sure if you understand what I'm trying to explain but if you do, is there a way to make sure the gap disappears so the paragraph goes completely to the bottom of the page?

I am using Office 2016.

bwiernik

I’m not sure exactly what you mean. Can you take a screen shot, upload to Dropbox or similar, and link here?

Geminiguy90028

https://www.dropbox.com/t/Z7x1Dr4YP9YKE4TS

https://www.dropbox.com/t/p69LReEKas1v8oCO

adamsmith

The spacing of text and footnotes is all Word; Zotero just tells Word to insert a standard footnote and then inserts text (the citation) into it. It sounds like what you're seeing is https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/2-ways-remove-extra-spaces-related-footnotes-word-document/

bwiernik

And after making those changes in a blank document, you can save that as a new Normal template so you don’t have to do it in every document. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-normal-template-normal-dotm-06de294b-d216-47f6-ab77-ccb5166f98ea