Line spacing in Word 2008

[Mr_Jess]

Despite setting the line spacing to single, all my documents are oddly spaced (they appear to be 1.5 or double-spaced). This only started once I installed Word 2008, so this is a new issue. When I open single-spaced documents from other people, it appears single spaced. It only happens when I create a new document.

Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It's not actually double-spacing that is the problem. Word changed the
default to add more space between paragraphs, so that each paragraph
will be single-spaced, but between paragraphs, you get extra space.
Paragraphs are created every time you hit enter.

To change in just this document, select all, go to Format | Paragraph.
Look down to the find the Spacing: After field, and change 10 to 0.

To change this in all documents created from now on, change the Normal
style.

First, select Format | Style. Normal should be selected.

Click on Modify--make sure "add to template" is CHECKED. You'll see a
Format menu in the bottom of the dialog--select Paragraph from it, and
change the Spacing: After setting from 10 to 0.

 

[Daniel Bauer]

Im having the same problem....and the solution proposed doesn't work....It still WORKs independently......Does anyone knkows how to fix this problem?

 

[Kate]

I also have the same problem. The fix worked - more or less - but the spacing between lines still seems to be a bit off.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Daniel,

You'll need to give more information before we can help you -- given that
Daiya's advice does indeed solve the problem. There may be something about
your set-up that's different. It's difficult to interpret "the solution
proposed doesn't work" and "it still works independently". Please be more
explicit than this and tell us *exactly* what you did. Don't spare the
detail.

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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