Gap in endnotes

Question

Hello,

I have a large document with many endnotes.  I was editing this today in Word 2013, and now notice that some of my endnotes break off half way through and continue on the next page.  The separators don't seem to be the issue.  If I delete the endnote by the pilcrow, I instead delete the part of the endnote on the next page without it coming back on to a single page.  There are about 5 endnotes like this out of my 700+ endnotes.  Any ideas on what I did / what I can do?

I am attaching an image of the issue showing the markups surrounding the cutoff endnote (on the left which is spread to the right).  I have also tried deleting the endnote, but the next one sequentially just does the same thing in its place.

Thanks

Answer 1

This has come up before and it's likely to be a bug. MVP Doug Robbins has suggested a workaround: Set the Line Spacing for the endnote separator to an exact amount (and make sure that amount is smaller than the font size).

To display the endnote separator, do the following: Switch to Draft view. On the References tab, click Show Notes. In the endnote pane, click the drop down to display the endnote separator.

Answer 2

Try also formatting the paragraph with the separator so that it does not have any space after it.

Another thing to check is that the paragraph formatting of the End Note style is set for the Lines to be kept together.

Answer 3

Thanks for the quick reply Stefan,

The method described fixed the first instance of this in the endnotes, but hasn't changed any of the other broken endnotes.  Any further suggestions?  Do you know what I may have done to have started off this bug?