I followed the steps to try and get rid of a footnote separator line in a report. It still is there. Any advice on the proper procedures to get rid of t. If you have both footnotes and endnotes in your document, Word will display the View footnotes dialog box. Click on the View Footnote Area button. Using the Footnotes drop-down, select Footnote Continuation Separator and the current separator will show in the window. Change or delete the separator to you liking. Once you are finished, click on.