cannot get word to consistently use singlespace when typing a poem

[saint]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have my style set on single space, and if I type in prose it's fine. But I'm a poet, and I have to end lines before I reach the margin and this latest Word always makes that a double space when I want the entire poem to be singled-spaced. I can do a "hard space" to make it stay a single space, but it is irritating because I have to do it for EVERY LINE. I never ever used to have to do this.

Can anyone help? Is there any way to keep single space even when you are ending in the middle of a line? I have tried everything I can think of including changing the style, but nothing helps.

Thanks!

 

[CyberTaz]

One option is to further modify whatever "style" you've set to single line
spacing to also remove what's set for Space After/Before in the Paragraph
formatting.

Another option is to use line breaks rather than paragraph breaks in order
for all lines -- at least those in the same stanza -- to be a part of the
same paragraph. Just use the return key to denote the end of one
paragraph/stanza to start another.

You're right that changing a style after the fact will not convert paragraph
breaks to line breaks, but Find & Replace using its Special feature will.