How To Stop Changing Line Height

[Bright Spark]

I'm afraid I need some help again! I can't find where to put my hands
on whatever formatting command makes the line height adjust when there
is, for instance, a degree's sign there. In other words, I somehow
have formatted things to adjust the line height when a degree's sign
is in a line, and consequently it makes all the lines on the page
different heights, which doesn't look good. I want to stop it doing
this, but can't find where the command is.

I am using Word 2003.

Thanks very much in advance.

Bright Spark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Tools | Options | Compatibility: "Don't add extra space for raised/lowered
characters." Or set the line spacing to an Exact amount in the Format |
Paragraph dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Bright Spark]

Thank you very much, Suzanne.

Actually, after a bunch more head-banging, I discovered that there is
more than one symbol for a degree sign (or at least there are some
that "look like" they are a degree sign), and somehow the one that was
being used automatically made the line height adjust. When I changed
to one in the Latin-1 set that actually called itself "Degree Sign"
then everything went back to normal and the line heights did not
change!

I will never be able to get my head on the same wavelength as MS Word,
I guess! I'm still stuck in word-processing days rather than desk top
publishing! ))

Thanks again for your help.

Bright Spark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I did wonder about that, since the degree sign shouldn't make the line
height change, but the controls I described will do the trick if you have,
say superscripted footnote references and the like.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Bright Spark]

Yes, thanks -- I have your response safely tucked away in my "Word
Info" file in case it comes up again with subscripts and/or
superscripts!

Bright Spark