Line spacing in MS WORD 2007

[Ron]

I have the trial version of WORD 2007, and the line spacing is
markedly different from the previous version. The lines appear to be
at least double-spaced, and when WORD 2003 documents are opened in
2007, the spacing is changed automatically. I have used the F1/Help
feature, but selecting single spacing is to no avail. "Single space"
clearly means "double space" now.

Any suggestions?

RJE

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

It's not line spacing, but spacing after paragraphs. If you want to
change it permanently, then you have to alter the Normal style in the
default template.

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[Rae Drysdale]

The normal style in 2007 has paragraph spacing set to add extra space on a
return. That's why it looks like double spacing. There is also a style called
no space which is what it says - no extra space. You can use this to get the
single space style or have a look in the paragraph spacing and change the
setting to 0. Hope this helps.

 

[Jeff]

Hello Ron,

I had the same problem, here is the solution I found:

Default line spacing and default paragraph spacing in
Word 2007 differ from the default spacing in earlier
versions of Word
Article ID : 921174
SYMPTOMS
When you work in a Microsoft Office Word 2007
document, you may notice that there is more
space between lines of a paragraph and more space between paragraphs than in
earlier versions
of Microsoft Word.
CAUSE
This behavior maybe occurs because the default line spacing and the default
paragraph
spacing has been increased in Word 2007 to provide better readability.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior in Word 2007 so that the line spacing and
paragraph
spacing are the same as in earlier versions of Word, change the Style Set
option.
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click the Home tab.
2. Click Change Styles in the Styles group, point to Style Set, and then
dick the
style set that you want to use.
To change the line spacing and paragraph spacing to the default spacing in
earlier versions of Word, dick Word 2003.
3. To set the style set as the default style set in Word 2007, click Change
Styles in
the Styles group, and then click Set as Default.

Good luck,
Jeff