There's a good chance that your vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page
Setup) is set to Justified.

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"JerryW" wrote in message
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I have two formatting issues.

1.) Line spacing varies throughout the doc even though formating is the
same. (i.e. paragraphline spacingexactly12pt) Some lines have the
correct
12 pt line spacing, while other lines "look like" they are set to 30 pt or
more.

2.) Table with cells "outlined" do not meet/touch the table lines from row
above with the row below. Table rows "look like" there is an extra blank
line
between the rows, but there are none. If I save it as an .MHT file format
the tables and line spacings are shown correctly, but the file is 3x
larger.
I need file to be saved in .doc format.

WinXP Professional sp2, Word 2003 sp1. Have downloaded all of the
updates,
reloaded Word, repaired Word, etc.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
Jerry