I am helping my wife with her dissertation using Word 2013.

The text and the footnotes are justified on both sides.

On many/most pages, Word fills up the available space with text, above the start of the footnotes on that page, just fine (1st image).

On some pages, Word leaves a lot of white space above the footnote (2nd image) despite the fact that two lines of text at the top of the next page (to the end of the paragraph [3rd image]) would fit just fine in the blank space on the previous page.

At the moment, I cannot find a way to get any lines from the next page to fill up that available space.



What is causing this and is there a way that I can correct it?

Thank you.

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	Too much blank space.png (26.6 KB, 18 views)
	Text from next page that would fit space.png (9.0 KB, 18 views)