Hi Dian, Thanks for the reply, In Pagination, Widows/Orphans control, Keep lines together, and Keep with next are all checkmarked. I read about pagination in Help, but I still don't understand why these checkmarked options are causing about a third of a page of whitespace between two paragraphs. Did the author insert ten or twelve blank lines between the paragraphs and then use pagination to retain the two paragraphs and their intervening blank lines together on the same page? Is that how it works? IOW, how did author get the whitespace between the paragraphs? Does it matter that this document is a template? I'm sure my guess is wrong because I just tried that method, and the symbols in my test document don't look like the ones in the original example. English is my native language, but sometimes Help seems like its written by aliens. Ray Shapp ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************