How to remove blank space left from Images Word import

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How to remove blank space left from Images Word import

Hi all,

I'm working on a document which has been imported from Word, because of the conversion process a lot of images (that where pasted directly from Powerpoint in Word) didn't get converted properly and ended up in different part of the resulting Pages document.

The issue is that the images were found somewhere else, but the space they were occupying in the document was left ..sometimes in that space I find a squared frame which I can easily remove but some other times I just find a blank space which is impossible to remove or select.

This results in breaking the text for 10-13 lines. It is impossible to make the text filling this space. I can assure I cannot select this area with any tool (also by selecting 'make master objects selectable') and Im using the 'show invisibles' mode.

Please any suggestion or advise?😀

Im available to send a part of the document so anyone may check if wants to help me..

Thanks a lot

cheers 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 19, 2012 11:05 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 19, 2012 11:29 AM in response to Seeker78

Seeker,

Send me an example of the problem, if you like. Tell me here after you send so I know to look at email.

I'll see what I can determine.

Jerry

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Answer 2

Mar 19, 2012 5:59 PM in response to Seeker78

Have you tried clicking after the space and backspacing?

Also check whether it is a before or after paragraph space in the Text Inspector.

Peter

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Seeker78 Author

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Mar 20, 2012 7:51 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

Hi Jerry thanks for your possible help 🙂, please find below a part of the text Im working, the issue is at the end of page 16 where I highlighted in yellow the text, I cannot get rid of the space at page 16:

Sorry if the document is in Italian and it is quite understanble for all you..

http://www.wupload.com/file/2677565317/example_of_my_problem.pages

I had to put it on wupload because the file is 77MB, sorry!!!
..and I dunno why...the whole document is 264 pages and is 77,8 MB I thought that only 17 pages were less...

I think thisis another BIG ISSUE thie FILE:.I think there is something hidden in it which is subtracting space...

Actually whne I imported the original document from Word it became 100MB, then I got rid of all the images but still 77MB, in word it was just 12MB with images..

Any more idea/suggestions about this size issue please?

Thanks a lot to everyone

cheers

simo

PS

in some of the footnotes there are some citation I imported using Endnote x5, but this is not affecting too much the size, as before these citations when I imported the document were not

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fruhulda

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Mar 20, 2012 8:22 AM in response to Seeker78

The problem is that you are using "justify text" and the line has some short words and the next word is long and doesn't fit on the same line as the short ones.

Justified

Aligned to the left

Change the text/words so Pages doesn't have to stretch the line excessively.

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Answer 5

Mar 20, 2012 1:24 PM in response to fruhulda

Fruhulda,

Thanks for getting the document. I'll let you take it from here.

Jerry

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Seeker78 Author

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Mar 20, 2012 2:37 PM in response to fruhulda

Sorry Fruhulda but the problem isn't about the fit of the owrds and cannot be solved with justification or alignment to the left...the problem are the big space in that page uderneath the line where I highlighted the words..

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Answer 7

Mar 20, 2012 7:43 PM in response to Seeker78

Ciao Seeker78

I've looked at your file and I am stumped. Everything that could possible cause the text to jump has no affect whatsoever.

I tried cleaning the text by passing it through a plain text document and repasting but it is clearly an artifact of that page only.

This is how I eliminated it.

1. Copy the text from that page plus the footnote into a separate document

2. Insert a Section break just before the page and just after

3. Click on the page in the page thumbnails and Delete it

4. Delete any section break left where the page used to be and repaste in your text and insert the footnote again.

This fixes the problem which I believe is an artifact of the conversion from Word.

Peter

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fruhulda

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Mar 20, 2012 10:39 PM in response to Seeker78

To size down the document from 77 Mb to some much less copy all text and paste it on a new blank document. It will size it down. You example document sized down to 180 kB!!!.

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Seeker78 Author

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Mar 21, 2012 9:04 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Ciao Peter, really, thank you so much,

it worked properly as you suggested!! ciao ciao!

Thank you Fruhulda I'll try to prepare a similar blank document and paste it all the 265 pages I have inside it..

thanks again all

Your support waa really really wonderful!

ciao ciao and greetz from Torino Italy.

cheers

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