or do you want to delete several spaces after
the footnote character and have only one space instead?
If so:
Sub ScratchmacroC()
Dim objFtn As Footnote
For Each objFtn In ActiveDocument.Footnotes
While objFtn.Range.Characters.First = " "
objFtn.Range.Characters.First = ""
Wend
Next
End Sub
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Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA
Vista Small Business, Office XP