<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">On the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Footnote</span> tab page, you can define where on the page footnotes are and the type of separator line.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you don't see this tab, then <help:link Id="67617" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Print Layout</help:link> is active. Footnotes are not visible in this mode.</p>
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<p class="Head2">Footnote area</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Set the height of the footnote area.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SW_RADIOBUTTON_TP_FOOTNOTE_PAGE_RB_MAXHEIGHT_PAGE" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Not larger than page area</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Choose this option to automatically adjust the height of the footnote area to the number of footnotes.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click here to limit the footnote area.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This spin box only becomes active if the <span class="T1">Maximum footnote height</span> option has been selected.</help:help-text> Enter the maximum height for the footnote area here.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SW_METRICFIELD_TP_FOOTNOTE_PAGE_ED_DIST" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Distance from text</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Define the distance between the lower page margin and the first line of text in the footnote area.</help:help-text> The text flow will be moved further up according to the dimensions.</p>
<p class="Head2">Separator Line</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Select the position and length of the separator line.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Define the horizontal position of the separator between the footnote area and the normal text.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Define in this spin box the percent of text area the seperator line should cover.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select the desired line width for the separator.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Define the spacing between the footnote area and the separator line.</help:help-text> The text in the document will be shifted accordingly.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The spacing between two footnotes is defined under <span class="T1">Format - Paragraph - Indents and Spacing</span>. It is very easy to define in the Spacing area how large the spacing is to be in front of or after a paragraph.</p>