Why Does Word For Mac Take So Much Space

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Have you ever tried to block justify your paragraphs (make your right margin even) in a Word document and ended up with an amateurish look of too much space between words? Try this instead (Word versions 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013+ listed).

1. Select the text you want to block justify.
2. Right-click on the text, and click Paragraph.
3. On the Indents and Spacing tab, click the drop-down next to Alignment, and click Justified, OK.
4. Right-click on the text again, and click Format, Font.
5. Tick the Kerning for fonts box (on the Character Spacing tab, and set font size to match the size of the font in your paragraph* (kerning is the spacing between characters and each font set has its own kerning). Spacing should be set at Normal.**But play around with this until you're satisfied by changing everything in this step. Also try using 'condensed' and alter the spacing until you're satisfied.
6. Click OK.

To fine-tune the spacing (Word 2003)

1. Click the Tools menu, Options. Then click the Compatibility tab.
2. Tick 'Do full justification like WordPerfect...'
3. Click OK.

To fine-tune the spacing (Word 2007)

1. Click the Office button, Word Options, Advanced.
2. Go to absolute bottom of Advanced options, and click to expand Layout Options.
3. Tick 'Do full justification like WordPerfect...' (this Options list is in alphabetical order)
4. Click OK.

To fine-tune the spacing (Word 2010).

1. Click the File tab, Options, Advanced.
2. Go to absolute bottom of the Advanced options, and click to expand Layout Options.
3. Tick 'Do full justification like WordPerfect...' (this Options list is in alphabetical order).

Also Read: How to Free up Space on Mac Reason 1: Mac hard drive is nearly full. First of all, go to check and see if you have enough free hard drive space to work with: Click the Apple menu Select 'About This Mac' Click on the 'More Info' button Choose the 'Storage' tab to check the disk storage overview and capacity. While this approach works in a crude way, you lose control over how much space follows each paragraph. And having a paragraph mark between paragraphs is too much space. What you want is less than an entire paragraph worth of space. Go through your document and take out anywhere you see a blank paragraph (a paragraph mark on a line by itself).

To fine-tune the spacing (Word 2013 and above).

Justification has been fixed so it's no longer necessary to change anything. If you end up with text with too much spacing on a short sentence, read below.

Fixing a Short Sentence

1. Click the File tab, Options, Advanced.
2. Go to absolute bottom of the Advanced options, and click to expand Layout Options.
3. Tick 'Do full justification like WordPerfect...' (this Options list is in alphabetical order).

Also Read: How to Free up Space on Mac Reason 1: Mac hard drive is nearly full. First of all, go to check and see if you have enough free hard drive space to work with: Click the Apple menu Select 'About This Mac' Click on the 'More Info' button Choose the 'Storage' tab to check the disk storage overview and capacity. While this approach works in a crude way, you lose control over how much space follows each paragraph. And having a paragraph mark between paragraphs is too much space. What you want is less than an entire paragraph worth of space. Go through your document and take out anywhere you see a blank paragraph (a paragraph mark on a line by itself).

To fine-tune the spacing (Word 2013 and above).

Justification has been fixed so it's no longer necessary to change anything. If you end up with text with too much spacing on a short sentence, read below.

Fixing a Short Sentence

If you ever have a very short sentence at the end of a paragraph that spreads out in spite of your adjustments, click behind the last character of that paragraph, and press Tab to close it up. Occasionally, you'll have to reword to fill up space.

UPDATE: In Word 2013:

• Click the File tab, Options, Advanced.
• Go to absolute bottom of the Advanced options, and click to expand Layout Options.
• Tick 'Don't expand character spaces on a line that ends with SHIFT-RETURN'.

This tip does not work if you use the Courier font. This is a monospaced (or non-proportional) font which is a typewriter-like, fixed-width font, and each letter occupies the same amount of space. Other computer fonts are variable-width (or proportional) and the software adjusts the spacing automatically. (This is why since the advent of computers, only one space follows a period, not two.)

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SUMMARY: In Word 2010, if there is too much white space between pages when viewing documents in Print Layout View, here's how to reduce it.

When viewing Microsoft Word 2010 documents in 'Print Layout' view, a small amount of space is added between pages, presumably to make the separation between pages more clear-cut onscreen.

If you perform document editing where you need to look at the bottom of one page and the top of the next page, you might find these few pixels a waste of space, especially on smaller monitors. Thus there are a couple of ways you can reduce the space between pages to only a couple of pixels:

Move your mouse pointer to the break between two pages. The pointer will turn into a double-sided arrow and you should see the ScreenTip 'Double-click to hide white space'. Follow the directions and the white space will reduce to 2 pixels. If you later need to bring the white space back, move your cursor to the same place in a document until the cursor changes and the ScreenTip 'Double-click to show white space' appears, then double-click.

Double-click to hide white space between pages

If you find this difficult you can perform the same action via the Ribbon and 'Word Options' dialog box:

1. Select the 'File' tab in the Ribbon.
2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the 'Options' button.
(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + T, then the letter O.)
3. The 'Word Options' dialog box appears. Click 'Display' in the left pane.
4. In the right pane, underneath 'Page Display options', uncheck 'Show white space between pages in Print Layout view'.

Hiding white space between pages in Word 2010 documents when in Print Layout View

5. Click 'OK' on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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