Hi @PamW ,
According to your description, I have the 3 questions as below.
- How did you get the document? Downloaded from the web or created by others? It would be better to provide a screenshot of “a large space”.
- Does the issue only occurr in an individual document? If yes, you could copy the document to other PCs to check the issue.
- Does this issue occur before?
You could refer to the following to check this issue.
- Please make a backup for the document firstly.
- Press Ctrl + A to select all content, in Home>Font, click the icon in the lower right corner, make sure to uncheck Hidden.
- Please go to Layout>Page Setup, click the icon in the lower right corner, in Layout tab, please set Vertical alignment to Top.
- Select the context of the blank area, go to Home>Paragraph to check if Spacing and Line Space in Indents and Spacing tab is appropriate. And make sure to uncheck Window/Orphan control in Line and Page Breaks tab.
- Besides, you could try go to View>select Outline in the Views tab, and select All Levels in the Show Level drop-down. This behavior will show you the detailed content and format outline of the document. If there is a blank space in here, you could delete it appropriately to check the issue.
- Double-click the blank area to see if there is a text box. If yes, you could delete it to check the issue.
Hope the information is helpful to you. Any updates, please let me know.
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