How can I eliminate the space between pages

When I view my Pages (7.2) documents on the iMac and the iPad there always is a line across the page where a new page will occur (this is without an inserted page break) and also space for where the header and footer would go, if I had them. As a result, there is a large gap going from one line to another if that line happens to be the first one on a new page. These big gaps make it bothersome to look at the document on the screen. Is there some way to eliminate them so each line follows the previous, regardless of whether it occurs at the top of a new page? I've attached an example below, showing a few lines at the bottom on one page and the top of another. (To emphasize, I did not put a page break here, this is just where the break would occur.) I would like to eliminate the gap between the line ending "... on the other side" and the one starting "In any case ...".User uploaded file

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Sep 26, 2018 11:14 PM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2018 1:14 AM

Hi rl,


"Pages," as the name implies, presents your writing as it would appear on (printed) pages, gomplete with the margin settings you have assigned (or that have been assigned by the designer of the template used to create the document.


Click the Format brush, chose to format the Document, then set the height of headers and footers to zero, and set top and bottom margins to zero. These settings should close up the spaces between the bottom of one page and the beginning of the next.


Another solution could be to copy the entire document, then paste it into a Text editor not designed with printed pages as the final product. The (reduced) image below shows text that would occupy three pages in Pages, as it appears in TextEdit, where no 'pages' have been defined.

User uploaded file

TextEdit is supplied with the operting system on your Mac, and will be found in the Applications folder.

On an iOS device, you might try Notes for a similar presentation, or check the App store for a Text Editor.


Regards,

Barry

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Sep 27, 2018 1:14 AM in response to rlplant

Hi rl,


"Pages," as the name implies, presents your writing as it would appear on (printed) pages, gomplete with the margin settings you have assigned (or that have been assigned by the designer of the template used to create the document.


Click the Format brush, chose to format the Document, then set the height of headers and footers to zero, and set top and bottom margins to zero. These settings should close up the spaces between the bottom of one page and the beginning of the next.


Another solution could be to copy the entire document, then paste it into a Text editor not designed with printed pages as the final product. The (reduced) image below shows text that would occupy three pages in Pages, as it appears in TextEdit, where no 'pages' have been defined.

User uploaded file

TextEdit is supplied with the operting system on your Mac, and will be found in the Applications folder.

On an iOS device, you might try Notes for a similar presentation, or check the App store for a Text Editor.


Regards,

Barry

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