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LonLL
When creating new documents in Word with Office:mac 2008, the spacing between paragraphs automatically double spaces. Is there a way to change this feature so that it does NOT automatically double space?
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Mactopia
Hi, what I had to do is this: On the Word toolbar, select Format, select Paragraph, on the first screen go to "Before" and "After", change the "After"
from 10 pt to 0, and that should fix your problem. However, you need to do this for each document at its beginning. If you find a way to default this let me know, please, because it's really annoying.
from 10 pt to 0, and that should fix your problem. However, you need to do this for each document at its beginning. If you find a way to default this let me know, please, because it's really annoying.
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Michel Bintener
This is not actually double spacing, it's a "space after" setting that
Microsoft enabled for the default Normal style. To get rid of it, click on
Format>Style, make sure "Normal" is selected in the list, then click on
Modify. Choose Paragraph from the dropdown button which reads Format, then
set the Spacing After to 0 pt. Click on OK, then check the box that reads
"Add to Template". Go back to your document and quit Word to force it to
save these changes. Any new document you now create should no longer have
this Space After setting.
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
Microsoft enabled for the default Normal style. To get rid of it, click on
Format>Style, make sure "Normal" is selected in the list, then click on
Modify. Choose Paragraph from the dropdown button which reads Format, then
set the Spacing After to 0 pt. Click on OK, then check the box that reads
"Add to Template". Go back to your document and quit Word to force it to
save these changes. Any new document you now create should no longer have
this Space After setting.
When creating new documents in Word with Office:mac 2008, the spacing between
paragraphs automatically double spaces. Is there a way to change this feature
so that it does NOT automatically double space?
--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
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Clive Huggan
I know that when someone has been used to using Word as a typewriter for a
long time, Word 2008's imposition of 10 points of leading (³ledding²) after
a paragraph must be annoying and all they want is an immediate solution --
especially if all they type is short letters and memos.
However, for longer documents there are huge advantages to having leading
above or below paragraphs. For example, if you want to squeeze some
paragraphs up to fit some text on a page rather than have it spill overleaf,
it's *very* easy to do it by modifying the leading -- e.g. via the Paragraph
command. Also, headings automatically "glue" themselves to following text
rather than to a blank paragraph mark, so you don't have to manually adjust
formatting when the document is completed.
For occasions when you have to avoid leading, such as address blocks in
correspondence, you simply key Shift-Return instead of Return at the end of
the line.
If you're interested in any of this, take a look at the article "The
advantages of including leading (blank space above or below) in styles" on
page 176 of the following reference; "Leading above, or below, paragraphs?"
on page 177; and an article on "minimum maintenance formatting" in Appendix
A starting on page 164.
The reference is some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend
Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from the Word
MVPs' website (http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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long time, Word 2008's imposition of 10 points of leading (³ledding²) after
a paragraph must be annoying and all they want is an immediate solution --
especially if all they type is short letters and memos.
However, for longer documents there are huge advantages to having leading
above or below paragraphs. For example, if you want to squeeze some
paragraphs up to fit some text on a page rather than have it spill overleaf,
it's *very* easy to do it by modifying the leading -- e.g. via the Paragraph
command. Also, headings automatically "glue" themselves to following text
rather than to a blank paragraph mark, so you don't have to manually adjust
formatting when the document is completed.
For occasions when you have to avoid leading, such as address blocks in
correspondence, you simply key Shift-Return instead of Return at the end of
the line.
If you're interested in any of this, take a look at the article "The
advantages of including leading (blank space above or below) in styles" on
page 176 of the following reference; "Leading above, or below, paragraphs?"
on page 177; and an article on "minimum maintenance formatting" in Appendix
A starting on page 164.
The reference is some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend
Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from the Word
MVPs' website (http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
====================================================
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Bill Weintraub-CU
Michael, you are wonderful. Thanks so much for your explanation on setting default to not skip that extra line after each "return." I was pulling my hair out -- and I don't have that much hair to spare. Have a great day. Bill
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Clive Huggan
I'll just go and mope off, then, unlike Michel [sic]. ;-)
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sherrera
Thank you Michael. I, too, was tearing my hair out. Clicking the template box and quitting MS Word was the trick I was missing. Some of these tips are just too obscure.
I really don't like programs trying to think for me. 99% of the problems I have with MS Word are trying to get it to STOP doing all of it's automatic stuff. The auto completion of names from my address book is another one that drives me nuts. I'll save that for another post!
I really don't like programs trying to think for me. 99% of the problems I have with MS Word are trying to get it to STOP doing all of it's automatic stuff. The auto completion of names from my address book is another one that drives me nuts. I'll save that for another post!
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Michel Bintener
Try Tools>AutoCorrect, AutoText (simply disable "Show AutoComplete tip for
AutoText, Contacts, and dates").
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
AutoText, Contacts, and dates").
Thank you Michael. I, too, was tearing my hair out. Clicking the template box
and quitting MS Word was the trick I was missing. Some of these tips are just
too obscure.
I really don't like programs trying to think for me. 99% of the problems I
have with MS Word are trying to get it to STOP doing all of it's automatic
stuff. The auto completion of names from my address book is another one that
drives me nuts. I'll save that for another post!
--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
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