Word: Hide Blank Line at Top of Page?

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The discussion addresses the issue of blank lines appearing at the top of pages in Microsoft Word documents when paragraphs are separated by blank lines. The user sought a solution to hide these blank lines without manually removing them, especially when page layouts change. The solution provided involves selecting the paragraphs, navigating to Format, then Paragraph, and adjusting the "Spacing after" setting to eliminate the unwanted blank line at the top of the page.

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Let's say I write a paper with many paragraphs that expand over multiple pages, and the paragraphs are separated with a blank line between them, i.e:

   blablablablablablablabla
blablablablablabla.

   blablablablablablablabla
blablablabla.

Now, if that blank line happens to fall right between two pages, the second page will have the blank line at the top, so that the text starts a few centimeters below the text on other pages. Is it possible to tell word to "hide" this kind of blank lines, that come at the beginning of pages? I could remove the line myself, but then what if I change the page layout and those two paragraps appear in the middle of the page? There will be no separation between them.

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Well I found the answer myself... select the paragraphs -> Format -> Paragraph... -> Spacing after. So if a mentor could please delete this. :smile:
 
I'll keep it here just incase anyone else has the same problem
 

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