Sometimes in legal documents, such as contracts, it is desirable to insert a page eject or a keep with next to move some text to the following page so it would be together with other related text.

This could leave several inches of white space at the bottom of a page, which, I assume, could leave the contract more open to doctoring.



I have seen the use of a "fill" character or image in the unused white space at the bottom of a page to "fill up" this white space and make it harder to misuse. I suppose it also conveys the impression that the white space was intentional and not an oversight, like the "This page intentionally left blank" messages in some manuals.

I cannot for the life of me recall what character is typically used. Can anyone tell me how this is usually done or point me to an example?

Thanks

PS: I found an example that uses a boxed statement: "The rest of this page intentionally left blank."

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/business/contracts/c2490.pdf

This is another solution, but it is not the one I recall seeing.

Word doesn't provide any tools for that and even the PDF in your link could easily be doctored (lots of white space above the notice). In any event, surely the real safeguard is that each party to the contract has their own copy?

A simple-enough solution would be to insert a single-cell table at the bottom of the text, give it a diagonal border (or two), then drag the table's bottom border down to the page's bottom margin.

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Hi Jennifer
A possible solution is to use Section Breaks on your pages where you have white space and reduce the page length for that page only.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Tony

Umm, how does that affect a printed page?

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If we accept that any malicious party with Acrobat tools (or even Word) and enough determination can thwart all your best efforts with (say) lorem ipsum paragraphs in grey … could you show willing by using Border, Horizontal Line and then "End of Content"? You could also add "(continues on next page)" before the line.