Microsoft 365 Word Tips and Tricks

Chapter 12: Formatting Problems – Too Much Space

It will happen; you are collaborating on a group project, maybe at work or at school, and you open the Word document that your group has been collaborating on, and it looks, well, strange. The words are fine, but there is all of this extra space, perhaps between the letters or paragraphs, or there are margins appearing that weren't there before. You don't want to play the blame game. That would be a waste of time. All you know is that this is extra space that you didn't put there, you don't know how it got there, and you aren't sure how to remove it. This document has to go out soon, so it has to be fixed quickly. However, it contains blank spaces and is invisible. So, how do you remove it if ...