Pagination Issues

[Fassettj]

I have been having a lot of problems with keeping successive lines of text together. For example, the document i am working on now, has a series of short paragraphs 2-3 line each, which are number, (3.1, 3.2, etc.), and i haven't changed anything in the "lines and paragraph settings", and i will keep writing, and when i return to this page, there will only be one or two paragraphs on this page, and 3/4 of the page will be blank. I can select a couple of paragraphs from each of the two pages, and open the paragraph settings and tell it "keep with next", and it will pull some of the paragraphs up from the next page, but still leaves considerable white space at the bottom of page. If i repeat the process, it kicks everything down to the next page, and leaves the entire first page blank. I am spending more time formatting the document than i am working.