The usual way to do that is hiding the footnotes and references using the in-built styles. Changing the Footnote Text style to Font| Hidden attribute hides all the footnotes as you’d expect. All the footnotes and the dividing line disappear.
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I have a chapter with 106 endnotes. Somehow, there are additional line spaces between certain endnotes that I can't seem to delete. Nor, when Word gets in this mode can I copy or cut an endnote in order to paste it closer to the one preceding it. Nor, curiously, does Word seem to remember the paragraph formatting of the whole section of endnotes.
I've selected all the endnotes and keyed the paragraph formatting several times. I've also tried copying all the text into another document. But the problem continues in the new version. Don't know which direction to turn,. All donations gratefully accepted.
I'm using Word for Mac 2011.