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Originally Posted by Wulf Anson
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Always get back from Meatgrinder a half page of blank, white space before my text continues at the top of the next page.[...]
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Please be clear about exactly where you are seeing this: What output formats are you checking? Which ones show this result?
For example, if you are only seeing it on the Smashwords online viewer then it may be an artifact of the viewer itself - some viewers intentionally try to avoid breaking paragraphs in awkward places, some do it well, some like the Smashwords online viewer are not so capable.
Make sure the styles you are applying in Word do
not apply the orphan or widow options to manage text flow - leave that to viewing software to decide.
Have you checked the EPUB produced? Does it do the same thing? If so, download it and pull it apart. (epub is just zip file, change the filename extension to .zip and you can easily extract the contents.) Now you can study the CSS and xHTML being used.
If you do not know anything about CSS and HTML you will still, hopefully, be able to find the HTML file where the problem exists: open it in notepad and do a search for the text that is being broken. If you copy and paste a few lines either side of the problem and post it here (put it inside CODE tags) then maybe we might be able to help further.