why double spaced lines on "Return" ??

[alm4rr]

Hi

every time I hit Return in Word 2003 to skip down to the next line, it makes it double spaced! I have to hit SHIFT+RETURN in order to make the cursor jump down single spaced to the next line. The document is set for single spaced.

I'm normally a Wordperfect user.

Any info is appreciated!!
Thx!

 

[Snapster]

It's not double spaced per say, but spacing between two paragraphs of text. Everytime you are hitting return you are indicating that you are starting a new paragraph. As paragraphs are generally easier to read with a little spacing between them Office apps by default have a spacing of the same height as the default font (ie 10pt) If you don't like them change the spacing after paragraph to 0pt in the options.

 

[alm4rr]

thx for the reply - do you know where in Options I can find it? I can't seem to....
Thx

 

[xtknight]

Press shift+enter to not create a paragraph but a line instead.

 

[alm4rr]

thx for the reply!
I was doing that now and find it annoying to do each time.

I decided to just make a new document and paste what I had into it. Then I clicked the radio button for just keep text. Now it works normally. I have no idea how or why it changed to double space in the earlier document.. 🙁

Thx!

 

[bruceb]

Try this option and see if it stops:

Tools, Options, Edit, uncheck "smart paragraph option"

 

[xtknight]

Paragraphs in Word have quite a few options so it can be quite daunting. If something's causing issues I recommend just setting it to Normal style and then redoing whatever style you had.

I always get weird spacing problems when I copy from a webpage but if I tell it to paste as 'plain text' everything is fine.

 

[Snapster]

Format > Styles and formatting. Modify the normal style then select format paragraph and set the spacing after to 0pt.