I have attached the segment of the file with the gap between first and second page. The original text was wider and looked OK and the issue appeared when I tried to reformat it to a 9 x 6 inch page size.

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Hi, Constantine,

I am a big fan of the "Reveal Formatting" pane (SHIFT+F1). As you see, looking at that told me where your issue was.

To fix it, on the Layout tab, expand the Page Setup and on the resulting window, click on the third tab, Layout. I'm not completely sure what effect you're looking for, but I changed the "odd page" to Continuous and the vertical alignment to Top and all looks right to me. I see your paper size is showing up as 6" by 9" (you may be metric, but that's how it shows to me); is that correct?

-- Ann

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Thanks to kilroyscarnival for pointing to the solution and to Guessed for suggesting I include a file as this is my first posting in the forum.

It turns out changing the vertical alignment to Top did the trick. I have no idea why it was set to bottom. I should say that the original text was written in Greek around 1985 using PCwrite that was very popular before MS Word dominated. Perhaps this may have something to do with the strange setting when the text file was imported to Word. Plus there was a machine translation from Greek to English. Now I can continue the editing process.

Regarding the page size, 6 x9 inches is the most typical book size, at least in the US. The nearest standard size is C5

I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for letting us know.

Word has poor support for vertical alignment. "Top" is really the only useful option. :-)

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