Line spacing

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Bob Gardner

I copied a form from a web page with the intention of filling in the blanks,
saving it as a Word document, and printing it out. However, when I try to
type in the name and address of the addressee (duh) they are automatically
double-spaced. I checked the formatting, and there is a paragraph sign at
the end of each line; I check the line spacing and it shows as single. How
can I defeat the automatic spacing?

Bob Gardner
 
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Greg Marlowe

Bob said:
I copied a form from a web page with the intention of filling in the blanks,
saving it as a Word document, and printing it out. However, when I try to
type in the name and address of the addressee (duh) they are automatically
double-spaced. I checked the formatting, and there is a paragraph sign at
the end of each line; I check the line spacing and it shows as single. How
can I defeat the automatic spacing?

Bob Gardner

On Format -> Paragraph, check "Space Before" and "Space After".
 
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Bob Gardner

For what it's worth, I tried selecting the whole document and saving it as
..rtf. When I search for and find (filename).rtf and open it, it is the same
text and format that was bugging me in the first place.

Bob Gardner
 
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Zilbandy

I copied a form from a web page with the intention of filling in the blanks,
saving it as a Word document, and printing it out. However, when I try to
type in the name and address of the addressee (duh) they are automatically
double-spaced. I checked the formatting, and there is a paragraph sign at
the end of each line; I check the line spacing and it shows as single. How
can I defeat the automatic spacing?

You might get an idea of what is going on by making sure you are
showing all nonprinting characters. This would show you where the hard
returns are for sure. With Word97, you can turn those on at . . .
Tools / Options / View / Nonprinting characters / and check "All."
 
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Greg Marlowe

On my Word 2002, in the Spacing area of Format -> Paragraph,
there is the "Line Spacing" field, but there are also a
"Before:" and an "After:" field -- make sure that those
read "0 pt" (they define spacing before and after a paragraph,
which apparently each line of your document is).
 

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