reduce white space between footnote separator and text

[PennCot6]

Document received for my review must contain hidden formatting that inserts a
huge amount of white space between footnote separator and footnote text. How
do I remove this so that my footnotes will not cause the final document to be
mostly white space?

 

[Rae Drysdale]

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/FootnoteFAQContent.htm#RandomLines