Is there a way to remove all this awful whitespace in MS Project 2013?

Question

The whole area in the orange box is totally useless and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. It's wasting a tremendous amount of vertical space.

I can collapse the ribbon, but this wasted space just slides up.

Update

Screen shot showing the timescale portion of the graph as well. Definitely not stacked three high and fonts are normal size.

I was going to say yes it occurs in all my files, but then I realized I based them all on the same template, so I found another project file of no relation, and also created a "new" file and neither showed the same whitespace issue.

It is clearly related to a peculiarity of my specific file, which is great to know.

Answer 1

It's happening because one of the columns in my Gantt chart has a long title and I'd squeezed the column width to be very small. (See the title and width of box in screenshot below). The Field Settings dialogue for that column had Header Text Wrapping box checked, which was causing the header height to grow, even though the text wasn't visible regardless of height.

I fixed it by unchecking this box for all visible columns. Note: I tried to select all the columns at once and unchecking the box, but this didn't take. That may just be a bug in Project.

Answer 2

It looks like you have increased the height of your header row. Place your mouse above the first task ID on the left side. Your mouse should look like a thick black line with arrows pointing up and down. Press and hold down the mouse button. Drag up to decrease the height of the header row.