Apologies. I broke a major rule of advice giving: Before you do, listen and
pay attention. --I did notice that you said character spacing.-- One of
other ones is, of course, don't speculate.
Glad you figured it out for yourself.
Regards,
Pam
"Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:40:04 -0700, PamC
wrote:
Modify your Normal style so the space between paragraphs is 0 (or whatever
you want) and the line spacing is single (instead of 1.15).
I suspect that as long as the file is in compatibility mode, the old
Normal.dot is attached, but that when it is converted to Word2007,
Normal.dotm or dotx is attached and that, on first close or open, the
template styles are updated. They probably need to do that to enable
features such as themes, which work only with certain font designations
(such as +Body for text ).
The default line spacing in Normal.dotm or x is looser that that in
Normal.dot. I don't like the new settings, so I've changed normal.dotm and
the default settings to what I want. I change settings in templates and
documents that I create for clients.
Maddening problem, easy fix, I think. BTW, here's the MS Office Team's
blog on the subject:
Thanks for your reply but I think you misread my question. The problem
was character spacing, not paragraph or line spacing.
After some more testing I have found out that one of the underlying
styles has a character spacing of 10,5 pt and that explains where the
spacing is coming from. What I don't understand is: the character
spacing is overriden by direct formatting in 2003 but when opened,
converted, saved, closed, re-opened in 2007, the character spacing is
still there.
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Fredrik E. Nilsen
http://fenilsen.wordpress.com