Thanks!
but…
How do I shrink the gaps and fonts in the references section??

Maybe you should take a look at this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11233/distance-between-chapter- title-and-text.

Another possibility could be that the compact version of titlesec is only applicable for headings available in articles and smaller document classes, so that the chapters of a report are not affected by it.

Thanks a lot!
But I’ve got a problem, can anyone help me?

\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{*0}{*0}

These worked fine for \section and \subsection, but what’s about \chapter?
Nothing happened here! I’ve been searching this for days…
Thanks

Thanks a ton for providing this…. sometimes I wish Knuth had managed to program some kind of “\crameverythinginto1page” command :P

Thanks a lot! I had resorted to using \vspace{-10pt}, etc., leaving the text looking all weird and squashed, before I found this page. Now it looks great and fits.

Check out this package to move the title…

\usepackage{titling}

Specifically

\setlength{\droptitle}{-XXpt}

Should help you out.

@ Serguei:@ Serguei:

Emma wrote:

Does this mean you have the default of no title page? If so, you can just leave out the \maketitle command, and write your title for example as
\twocolumn[\begin{center}\textbf{TITLE} \end{center} \vspace{VALUE}]
That’ll span both columns and you can choose the vertical space.

Well, I still want to make my title the way LaTeX allows me to without an in-body workaround. I might just have too high of hopes to suppose a preamble workaround. (If you’re wondering why, it’s really out of not wanting to write \twocolumn[\begin{center}\textbf{TITLE] \end{center}\vspace{VALUE} every other day for essays for class. I’d much rather, and am hopeful, that there might be something like a \usepackage{titlespace} or something. If anyone is bored enough to write that package for me using your suggested workaround, they can have at it! =D

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet THANK YOU!

An easy way to reduce whitespace above the article title is this: just include a \vspace{-5pt} (or whatever amount you want) in the title itself.

For example:

\title{\vspace{-5pt}An Awesome way to Reduce Whitespace}

This works for me for the default article class. Haven’t tested it elsewhere, but should work.

Thanks a lot for a quick and easy solution