# Spacing Between Footnotes

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Spacing Between Footnotes
If you want to increase the spacing between footnote or endnote texts, you can add a top and bottom border to the corresponding paragraph style.
- Click in a footnote or endnote.
- Choose Format - Styles and Formatting.
- Right-click the Paragraph Style that you want to modify, for example, "Footnote", and choose Modify.
- Click the Borders tab.
- In the Default area, click the Set Top and Bottom Borders Only icon.
- In the Line area, click a line in the Style list.
- Select "White" in the Color box. If the background of the page is not white, select the color that best matches the background color.
- In the Spacing to contents area, clear the Synchronize check box.
- Enter a value in the Top and Bottom boxes.
- Click OK.
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