Page breaks errious with footnotes before a section break ..

Section 6 of a document is oriented as portrait, section 7 as landscape. To
get this working I have to insert a section break (page). So far, so good.
I inserted three footnotes on the last page of section 6, and now the
footnotes are not any longer displayed close to the bottom of the page but
there is quite a distance between the footer line and the last line of the
footnotes. To make things worse in this specific case there are now the last
two lines of section 6 on a new page although there is a lot of space left on
the page before.
For me it seems as Word calculates the space needed wrong (estimated double
the height actually needed, the distance grows when I put more text in the
footnotes).
It only happens on this specific page, all other footnotes are located
perfectly.

I tried already
- to insert a manual page break and a section break (continious) instead of
the section break (page) (doesn't work because word converts the section
break from continious to page since there is the change in orientation),
- to remove some footnotes (problem stays but the space varies as mentioned
related to the amount of text),
- to change Widow/ Orphan control of the last paragraph in section 6
(problem stays),
- to change the "Page break before" for the first line of section 7 (as it
is a chapter heading the style says so) (problem stays),
- to insert empty lines between the last lines of text and the section break
(problems stays until enough empty lines are inserted to move the section
break on a new page, which causes the footnotes to jump to the right position
of the original page but now I have a blank page in the document.)

To make things worse I can't create the same problem with a two page
document so that it would be easy for every one out there to see the problem.
So I could only show it to my colleagues at my company and no one could find
a solution.

Just to check: Do you have "Bottom of page" or "Beneath text" selected for
the footnote position? Assuming you have "Bottom of page" selected, I have
seen this problem once before, but I can't remember what the solution (if
any) turned out to be. What happens if you insert a Continuous section break
above the Next Page break?

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"Duffy Kuehn" <Duffy Kuehn.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Section 6 of a document is oriented as portrait, section 7 as landscape.
To
> get this working I have to insert a section break (page). So far, so good.
> I inserted three footnotes on the last page of section 6, and now the
> footnotes are not any longer displayed close to the bottom of the page but
> there is quite a distance between the footer line and the last line of the
> footnotes. To make things worse in this specific case there are now the
last
> two lines of section 6 on a new page although there is a lot of space left
on
> the page before.
> For me it seems as Word calculates the space needed wrong (estimated
double
> the height actually needed, the distance grows when I put more text in the
> footnotes).
> It only happens on this specific page, all other footnotes are located
> perfectly.
>
> I tried already
> - to insert a manual page break and a section break (continious) instead
of
> the section break (page) (doesn't work because word converts the section
> break from continious to page since there is the change in orientation),
> - to remove some footnotes (problem stays but the space varies as
mentioned
> related to the amount of text),
> - to change Widow/ Orphan control of the last paragraph in section 6
> (problem stays),
> - to change the "Page break before" for the first line of section 7 (as it
> is a chapter heading the style says so) (problem stays),
> - to insert empty lines between the last lines of text and the section
break
> (problems stays until enough empty lines are inserted to move the section
> break on a new page, which causes the footnotes to jump to the right
position
> of the original page but now I have a blank page in the document.)
>
> To make things worse I can't create the same problem with a two page
> document so that it would be easy for every one out there to see the
problem.
> So I could only show it to my colleagues at my company and no one could
find
> a solution.
>