Why extra white space..

.... at the bottom of some pages?

Some of my pages have one or two extra blank lines at the bottom. They
don't seem to be there to avoid "orphans" or to keep headings with text.
They're followed by the rest of a paragraph. For some I was able to get
them to fill in with text from below by removing an empty line from above or
below a figure above the problem. But in the cases I have left, there is no
figure above them in their chapter to play with. Any ideas about what I can
do?

tia
las

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Laurel" wrote in message
...
... at the bottom of some pages?

Some of my pages have one or two extra blank lines at the bottom. They
don't seem to be there to avoid "orphans" or to keep headings with text.
They're followed by the rest of a paragraph. For some I was able to get
them to fill in with text from below by removing an empty line from above
or below a figure above the problem. But in the cases I have left, there
is no figure above them in their chapter to play with. Any ideas about
what I can do?

tia
las

Thanks - lots of good techniques here to play with. For the sake of others
who might read this conversation, following is what I do when Word seems to
have made a mistake - when there is no good reason for this extra white
space.

Somewhere in the middle of the bottom line of the page with the white space,
start re-typing your text. Don't delete anything yet. When you get to the
end of the line, I find that it wraps onto the next line of the offending
page, filling up the white space. Type until it wraps onto the next page,
then delete duplicate text below.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Laurel" wrote in message
...
... at the bottom of some pages?

Some of my pages have one or two extra blank lines at the bottom. They
don't seem to be there to avoid "orphans" or to keep headings with text.
They're followed by the rest of a paragraph. For some I was able to get
them to fill in with text from below by removing an empty line from above
or below a figure above the problem. But in the cases I have left, there
is no figure above them in their chapter to play with. Any ideas about
what I can do?

tia
las