footnotes won't stay on first line

[Babbie]

My numbered footnote won't stay on first line. After entering a full line of
text, the footnote jumps to the second line.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Do you have a space between the punctuation and the footnote? If so, remove
it. Then it will jump with a word (assuming I have understood your post
correctly, it is not entirely clear).

DM

 

[Babbie]

There should be a tab after the superscripted number and then the footnote
text. When the text is longer than one line, the first line of text is
tabbed (as I want it), but it jumps to the second line leaving the
superscripted number by itself. Does that make since?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I can't see why this would happen unless all the spaces are nonbreaking
spaces.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Makes more sense. Didn't realize you were talking about the note itself and
not the reference in the text. Click ¶ on the standard toolbar to turn on
nonprinting characters to see if anything is awry--you should have a grey
arrow for the tab and a grey ¶ at the end of the note and plain grey dots
between the words. I wonder if somehow you could be getting non-breaking
spaces (grey degree symbol).
More info:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

Failing that, with the cursor in a misbehaving word, click on Format | Style
and see if there is anything odd about the style definition.

DM