How to get rid of large gaps in text in MS Word
You can also turn on "Show all formatting marks." In Office 2007, it's under the round unlabeled menu button (not the normal rectangular ones), then "word options", then "Display".
I've run into this several times and couldn't find anything in Google that helped (I know it's not a line break or hidden table!!). It happens when I'm using Styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc). I'm not sure what's going on, but here's how I fixed it:
- Highlight the region of the document that has a problem
- Right click
- Select "Paragraph"
- Go to "Line and Page Breaks" tab
- Uncheck "Keep with next" and also uncheck "Keep lines together"
- OK
What exactly does that do? I'm not sure, but it solved the problem for me, so I figured I'd share here since this seemed to be one of the top hits in Google.
Try this which fixed it for me.
- Click anywhere on the page that has the gap.
- Go to "Page Layout" tab
- click on the lower right corner of the "Page Setup" section (it looks like a little box with an arrow). That brings up the "Page Setup" dialog box.
- In that dialog box click on the "Layout" tab.
- There, in the "Page" section, check what it says for "Vertical alignment". If it says "Center" change it to "Top"
- and then click "OK".