Although it could be that the paragraphs have Space Before/After, as Gary
implies, more often it's caused by the typist having pressed Enter twice
between paragraphs, so that there is an empty paragraph between text
paragraphs. You can clean this up with Find and Replace, but if you've
pasted this text from the Web, there may be more than that going on. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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"Al Franz" wrote in message
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Often in Word when I paste text into a document it will have double
spacing
at line breaks. I highlight the paragraphs select FORMAT, PARAGRAPHS and
put Line Spacing to SINGLE. But I still have double spacing at carriage
returns??? Is there another trick to get rid of embedded format
information???

Using the latest version of Word 2003.