MS Word 2007 - Double Spacing Lines by default - how to turn off ?

[lkj8...@hotmail.com]

Hi

I am struggling with this new POS MS Word 2007 (at least I think it is
2007 - there is no Help/About menu by which I can tell).

For some reason you get a double-spaced document when you start MS
Word and eventually I found a place were you can get at the spacing
(I'd tell you where it is but I cannot find it again).

If you click/unclick a lot of checkboxes several times and alter the
line spacing then you can turn off this double spacing thing.

I tried getting Word 2007 to stay un-double-spaced but it does not
seem to work.

Does anyone know how I can fix this ? I don't have a copy of the
previous Word to get on with any work and I am having to draft in
TextPad and paste into a saved document in MS Word then fool with the
formating in there to create a new document.

TIA

[Gordon]

<lkj8...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi
>
> I am struggling with this new POS MS Word 2007 (at least I think it is
> 2007 - there is no Help/About menu by which I can tell).
>
> For some reason you get a double-spaced document when you start MS
> Word and eventually I found a place were you can get at the spacing
> (I'd tell you where it is but I cannot find it again).
>
>

On the Home tab, go to Styles block, and click on Change Styles. Select Word
2003, and then click on "Set as Default".

HTH

[Terry Farrell]

If you have the Office Button (the Pizza) in the top left corner, you have
Word 2007. The Pizza is really just the old FILE menu and opens if you click
on it or use Alt+F (note that when you press ALT, Word will display all the
shortcuts for the various menus and ribbons).

The 'double-spacing' is in fact the Paragraph formatting, Space After
setting. Simply edit normal style so that Space After is set to zero.

On the Home Ribbon, right-click on NORMAL in the Style Gallery and choose
MODIFY. IN the dialog, check the 'New Documents based on this Template'
button and then select FORMAT, Paragraph and in the Format Paragraph dialog,
change the Space After setting to zero. Click on OK, OK and close Word. Say
YES to the question to save changes to the global template.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

Normal style line spacing in 2007 is set at multiline or 1.15 (of the point
size) instead of single. You may want to change that too.

PamC

Terry Farrell wrote:
>If you have the Office Button (the Pizza) in the top left corner, you have
>Word 2007. The Pizza is really just the old FILE menu and opens if you click
>on it or use Alt+F (note that when you press ALT, Word will display all the
>shortcuts for the various menus and ribbons).
>
>The 'double-spacing' is in fact the Paragraph formatting, Space After
>setting. Simply edit normal style so that Space After is set to zero.
>
>On the Home Ribbon, right-click on NORMAL in the Style Gallery and choose
>MODIFY. IN the dialog, check the 'New Documents based on this Template'
>button and then select FORMAT, Paragraph and in the Format Paragraph dialog,
>change the Space After setting to zero. Click on OK, OK and close Word. Say
>YES to the question to save changes to the global template.
>

>> Hi
>>
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>>
>> TIA

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[lkj8...@hotmail.com]

Figured it out.

Don't go to 'page layout', go to 'Home' which is the large button on
the LHS.

Middle of the screen there is a button with a doubleheaded arrow to
the left of some bars. Hit that.

Go to line spacing options.

Up to now I have been punching radio buttons, but you don't have to do
that. Set the two 'before' and 'after' spacing box to zero. I have
even managed to get new .docs to give single spacing.

If I was going to write stupid front ends to software, I would make
sure that there is always a command line interface for that software,
so that when all else failed, you can just give it the command from
the command line, without having to surf through lots of badly named
and badly grouped menus.

set linespace currentdoc nil

set linespace normaltemplate nil

This way, however hard you try to screw up the front end, someone can
always get some work done in spite of you.

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[Terry Farrell]

So you didn't bother to read any of the replies? Who mentioned the Page
Layout tab?

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Terry

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