Double line spacing, but it's not!

[Chris Bolus]

This one has got me stumped, and I'm normally pretty good in Word.

Some pupils in a wordprocessing lesson produced documents in Word2000.
In Normal view they looked correct, but printed out with double line
spacing. Switching to Page Layout view showed the double line spacing,
as did Print Preview.

I checked the paragraph formatting and the paragraph style and they both
show single line spacing is set, with no extra spacing before or after
the paragraphs. I looked in Options and set it to Show formatting marks.
There are no extra line returns; but there is an extra line showing
after the paragraph mark. There is nothing to show any reason why this
should appear as double spaced.

I tried changing fonts, no difference. I looked at it in Word97, no
difference. I took a copy of a file home and looked at it in Word XP, no
difference. I've looked everywhere I can think of but I can find no
differences!

Any ideas??
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Another user who recently had a similar problem found that the font had been
set to superscript. Another setting that will increase space between (but
not within) paragraphs is Justified vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page
Setup).

 

[Chris Bolus]

Another user who recently had a similar problem found that the font had been
set to superscript. Another setting that will increase space between (but
not within) paragraphs is Justified vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page
Setup).

You're a star! It was the latter. This is not something I would ever
have thought to check.

Obviously there has either been a misinterpretation of what the teacher
said (it's not my class, but I'm head of department), or one of the kids
thought they knew a better way to do something and told the others.
That's how things happen!

Once again, thanks.
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