Or “Keep with next” is applied to this paragraph. The cause can be the first paragraph in next page is too long to be kept together on the footnote page. Yet you can guarantee there is no paragraph mark and you can do nothing about it.
There can be times when you find a large blank space is right above footnotes and below the body text, such as below: Case 1: Extra Spaces between Footnote and Body Text The Issue In this article, we will illustrate 2 cases where the unnecessary spaces drive people crazy, and also their solutions. And when it comes to the use of footnote, the headache remains. Problems about spaces in Word can be annoying sometimes.
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This is the best way to adjust your text spacing or your text color because of course you can always go back and change your paragraph style at any time if you want to update it.In the following content, we will focus on explaining 2 ways to remove the extra spaces related to footnotes in your Word document.
It tightens up the body text throughout the document. You can really see what a big difference this makes. Let's move the dialog box out of the way so we can really see this. Now let's go ahead and turn the preview check box off to see before and after. For big headline text you can tighten it up a lot more. When you're working with normal paragraph text you generally only want to change this in small values like -2 or -3%. And now I can change the desired to -3% too. If I want to make the desired value smaller here, I have to first change the minimum because desired can't be lower than the minimum. So that changed the word spacing, the spaces between the words. Because the preview check box is turned on in the dialog box you can see it immediately affects all the text in my document. I'll select that and once again I'll change my desired word spacing to 85%. That lets me edit that style and here I have the justification pane. So I'll click cancel here and instead I'm going to double click on the paragraph style here in the paragraph style panel. If I want to change all the text in my document, I don't want to change it one paragraph at a time, I want to change the paragraph style. Now, when I turn on the preview check box you can see that it tightened up that paragraph, but only that one paragraph. But if I want to tighten all of this text up a little bit, I'll lower this desired setting for word spacing to say 85%. You see how the word spacing desired value is 100%? That means 100% of what the font designer said that the spacing should be. In this case, I want to focus on the first two. Word spacing, letter spacing and glyph scaling. And you can see in the top of this dialog box there are three main categories. But that's fine, the justification dialog box works on any text. You can see that this text is all ragged right, or sometimes called left aligned. Now, this might seem weird because this text isn't even justified. Then, I'll go to the control panel fly out menu that's way over here on the right side of the control panel, and I'll choose Justification. I don't have to select the entire paragraph, because I'm changing paragraph formatting.
And now, I'm just going to place my cursor anywhere inside this paragraph. Here, let me undo this with a command Z or a control Z on Windows.
But if you're trying to change the overall spacing of your text, which is sometimes called the text color, then you should probably use the justification dialog box instead. Now, in general changing tracking or kerning is fine when you're just changing a word or a sentence or something like that. And while there's nothing technically wrong with doing that, I want to show you a better way. For example, I'll change tracking to say -10, that tightens it up. Most InDesign users would change this by selecting all the text in a paragraph like this and then changing the kerning or tracking value up at the control panel. I mean, it's fine, but I just think it would look better if the spacing between each word and maybe even between each letter were a little tighter.