To allow room for it, Word moved lines from the bottom of the body of the page down to the next page, which I believe is what you want, right? The entire footnote remained on the first page. I then added more text to the footnote to increase the number of lines and again opened Print Preview. The footnote appeared at the bottom of the first page, as desired. I then closed the footnote panel and displayed the page in Print Preview. I inserted a footnote in a paragraph on the 1st page I had two lines of text in the footnote. I opened a 2 page Word (2003) file that had no footnotes in it.
Hmm, at the moment, I don't know of another fix. I'm a little flummoxed that Word would have such a bug. If you think of another fix, I'd love to hear about it. The amount of available space depends on the amount of text on the page, the margin settings for the document, and the number and length of the footnotes. Microsoft Word automatically moves the part of the footnote that does not fit in the available space to the next page. When I consult the Help file: Under "Footnote Troubleshooting," > "Part of the footnote gets moved to the next page" there's this explanation:
But I had to do that 8 times in a 40 page paper - not fun. That effectively made more space so that the 2nd half of the footnote, which had been bumped to the next page, rejoined the beginning of the note.
I went into the body text and inserted a manual page break a line or two from the bottom of the problem page. I've developed a work-around, but it's not a solution I'm happy with. Yes, that's exactly how I created the footnotes. Thanks so much for your response, Soybean.