Why are there extra blank lines in my header and footnotes?

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T Brown

I'm editing a Word document. My two-line header keeps 'growing' to have
several blank lines after the end of the title information -- which I have to
edit out. I have a single footnote in my document, and that's suddenly
acquired three or four blank lines *before* it, which I can't edit out at all
-- leaving an inconvenient white space and throwing out the layout.
What is causing this? How can I fix it?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Assuming there are no actual empty paragraphs in either header or footnotes,
the most likely cause is that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page
Setup) has gotten set to Center and either the page is not full or there are
several "Keep with next" paragraphs toward the end. See
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/BottomLine.htm
 
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T Brown

Apologies: I didn't make it clear, but there *are* additional empty
paragraphs (4 of them) appearing after the 'footnote divider' but before the
first footnote -- and after the last text in the header. I can edit out the
ones in the header, but I can't work out how to edit the ones in the footnote
- eventually I ended up removing it altogether!
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

In Normal view, go to View | Footnotes. In the footnote pane, choose
Footnote Separator and delete the empty paragraphs.
 
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