Looks double-spaced but Word says it's single-spaced

[Stephanie]

I've got a document that I want to be single-spaced - and
that's what the formatting says it is - but it looks
double-spaced. How can I change the document so that it
looks single-spaced like Word says it is? Right now, if I
highlight the document and try to change it to single-
spaced, it remains the same. The only thing I know to try
is to copy the info to a new document, format it there,
then copy it back to the original document. Please help!

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Two things to check:

1. Vertical alignment on the Layout tab of Page Setup. If it's anything
other than "Top," you may get strange results.

2. Spacing Before/After in Format | Paragraph. If there's a paragraph return
at the end of each line (as there might be in an imported text file), then
each line is a paragraph, and interparagraph spacing would apply.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Stephanie" <smo...@lundygroup.com> wrote in message
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[Tim Murray]

The text may have a large leading value (called "line spacing" in Word). Do
a Format > Paragraph and see what's in Line Spacing.

Also, it sounds like you're not using styles. You should learn all you can
about using them.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If Word claims the paragraph is "Single" spaced, then that *is* what's in
"Line spacing."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Tim Murray" <NoS...@techknowledge-no-spam-corp.com> wrote in message
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[Steve Hudson]

G'day Stephanie.

One of my copyediting macros forcibly removes all multiple spacing
from a document (does NOT do tabs etc, that's a different one):

Public Sub Remove_Double_Spacing()
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
ReReplaceAll " ", " "
ReReplaceAll " ", " "
.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
End Sub

Private Sub ReReplaceAll(OldText As String, NewText As String)
Dim r As Range
Set r = ActiveDocument.Range
r.Collapse
With r.Find
.Text = OldText
.Replacement.Text = NewText
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
While .Execute(Replace:=wdReplaceAll)
Wend
End With
End Sub

Steve Hudson, Word Heretic
HDK List MVP
Word tools: her...@tdfa.com
Please post replies/further questions to the newsgroup so that all may benefit.
If I don't provide enough information, please feel free to ask for more :-)

[renom...@gmail.com]

Format>Paragraph> Check "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"

[SafeTex]

Hello

Assuming that we are looking for a complicated explanation, I recently had a document on my computer where a couple of proper nouns had been kept in Swedish and happened have accented Swedish vowels

The difference in spacing between these couple of lines and the rest of the all English text was easily visible yet all line spacing was set to the same

So do you just happen to have some unusual characters?

Doubt it but it's worth mentioning for Word fanatics

Regards

[Stefan Blom]

Try a different font. Alternatively, keep the font you are using now and
change the Line Spacing to "Exactly." You may have to experiment a bit to
find an appropriate value.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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[bone...@gmail.com]

THANK YOU!!!
John

[rominam...@gmail.com]

FORMAT --> PARAGRAPH --> SPACING

Make sure that "Before" and "After" are both "0 pt"

[renom...@gmail.com]

This was it! Thanks!!

[con...@ajmoss.com]

Thank you Renom: that worked for me!

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi,

> > Format>Paragraph> Check "Don't add space
> > between paragraphs of the same style"

> Thank you Renom: that worked for me!

So it was not a problem of line spacing in paragraphs, but spacing *before*
and/or *after* paragraphs...

--
Cheers,
Lisa

[julie...@gmail.com]

Thank you! That has fixed my problem and I spent ages looking for an answer before I read yours.

[Bill Helbron]

After serious thinking rominam...@gmail.com wrote :

I have the same problem but only one line in the paragraph is
double-spaced! I have high-lighted the line and it shows "Before" and
"After" are both "0 pt". I've also checked other similar paragraphs and
are are all single-spaced! Please advise!

Bill

[Peter T. Daniels]

Have you turned on Show Non-Printing Characters (Ctrl-Shift-8) to check
whether there's a space character, or something, that has a large point-size?

[Bill Helbron]

Peter T. Daniels wrote on 09-Jun-17 :

Thanks Peter,

I will certainly try that if it I encounter it again but I simply
"re-typed" that line in another location, copied it, & pasted it over
the double-spaced line, and it solved the problem!

Bill

[linda.sm...@gmail.com]

I went to DESIGN > PARAGRAPH SPACING > NO PARAGRAPH SPACE
That fixed the problem.

[Gary]

On Monday, February 4, 2002 at 9:16:50 AM UTC-5, Stephanie wrote:

I'm having the same problem. I understand and use styles. I've built other styles off the body text style, which is built off of Normal. I have paragraphs set for single spacing, with 6pt between paragraphs.

The paragraphs of my headers are showing up as double-spaced.

The document is currently aligned to the margin, the default. I've never changed this. The only other option not grayed out is align to page.

Thanks for any help.

[garyle...@gmail.com]

My temporary solution is to set Body Text spacing at exactly 12pt, which looks like single spacing. Not permanent though.

[jjd...@gmail.com]

Yes, thank you; I saw it as soon as I turned on show formatting, then replaced away paragraph returns with a space.

[millstradi...@gmail.com]

Both explanations are nonsense. Bug city. word it "toy"ware.

[Michael Tardie]

millstradi...@gmail.com;496914 Wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 1:16:50 AM UTC+11, Stephanie wrote:-

> I've got a document that I want to be single-spaced - and
> that's what the formatting says it is - but it looks
> double-spaced. How can I change the document so that it
> looks single-spaced like Word says it is? Right now, if I
> highlight the document and try to change it to single-
> spaced, it remains the same. The only thing I know to try
> is to copy the info to a new document, format it there,

> then copy it back to the original document. Please help!-
>
> Have you checked the Paragraph dialog (Home tab, Paragraph group) to
> ensure the Line spacing setting is set to 'Single'?




--
Michael Tardie

[nobl...@gmail.com]

That FIXED IT!!!

[briggs....@gmail.com]

Thank you!! So helpful

[jo...@dhkarchitecture.com]

cheers, helped Tin and I in Tasmania :)

[spinefit....@gmail.com]

On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 3:25:27 PM UTC-7, renom...@gmail.com wrote:
> This was it! Thanks!!

Thank you!! That did it!

[jfust...@gmail.com]

THANK YOU!!!!!!