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Grab free 477+ shortcuts to save time with the software programs you use every day. © Dawn Bjork, MCT, MOSM, The Software Pro® | Microsoft Certified Trainer, Productivity Speaker, Software Consultant Also, make sure to take advantage of the document view options under the View tab so you can display your document in any way that's helpful to you whether or not you show white space. We can bring it back at any time but this can make it much easier to navigate through lengthy documents without seeing all of that white space in the document margins and where you might have page breaks.Īny time you want to display white space in the document, hover over the edge of the pages and notice, “Double-click to show white space.” Double click and now we have it back. Hover your mouse over the edge of the page and notice “Double-click to hide white space.” Simply double click and now that extra white space is being hidden. Move to the top or bottom margin of that page. With pages breaks, one of the things that can happen is we can have these massive amounts of white space, especially if the document is zoomed and we're scrolling quite a bit as we're moving from one section, or one page to another. You can also choose the Insert tab in the ribbon and then pick Page Break. When you want to insert a page break to move text to the next page, press +. The Show/Hide white space feature is especially helpful if you have a longer document that might have page breaks in it. But what about the vertical white space between pages in long Word documents? How can you make it easier to navigate, edit, and format your Word files?Ĭontinue reading or watch my video on the simple steps to show or hide vertical white space in long Word documents. And, with long documents, I would recommend that you keep this turned on. You'll find this under the Home tab, and it is the paragraph mark icon that you can enable, turn on, or turn off, to show or to see some of the hidden information in that document. Now, you may already know about the Show/Hide option in Word to display non-printing characters. If you work with long documents in Microsoft Word, you should know about the Show/Hide white space feature.
