Text Stops Filling Text Box in InDesign, Leaving Large Empty Space

[Grundoon Groundhog]

Suddenly the text stops filling a text box; a large part of the box remains empty, no matter what I do.

The work around is to fit to text and flow to a new text box which I've put in place, but this may cause extra problems if the preceding text has to reflow. There is no page break I can find (and I deleted them all when I brought the text in from Word).

I am making corrections to this complex document, and this problem just started occurring.

I am attaching a screen capture and the original document. The problem is on page 30 (and others).

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[Jeffrey_Smith]

Is there "No Break" applied to any unrevealed text?

[Steve Werner]

Do you have Keep Options selected with the paragraph. That can force a new paragraph to jump to a new column or page.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Grundoon Groundhog 

No problem for me:

but I don't have your fonts...

Maybe play / turn off KEEP LINES TOGETHER:

You also have empty Story under your main text:

And someone has overriden Running Header and page numbers TextFrames:

[Eugene Tyson]

All these paragraphs are set to 

Keep With Next 1 Lines:

Which means they will stay with the next line 

Change it to 0

and they will pull back

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

All these paragraphs are set to 

Keep With Next 1 Lines:

By Eugene Tyson

Yes, but I don't thinks that's a problem - it would be a problem if all next paragraphs would be one-liners. 

As per my screenshot - there is no gap there. 

But I suspect the problem is with the next pair - 2+2.

[Eugene Tyson]

They all don't have Keep with Next Line 1

only some of them do

Which is why it looks like it's breaking in strange places. 

It's definitely that setting - 100% 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

They all don't have Keep with Next Line 1

only some of them do

Which is why it looks like it's breaking in strange places. 

It's definitely that setting - 100% 

By Eugene Tyson

What do you mean "not all"? 

[Eugene Tyson]

Only some of the paragraphs have this set like this

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Only some of the paragraphs have this set like this

By Eugene Tyson

Yes, you are right:

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