Are you sure the paragraphs are paragraphs? That is, make sure that each
line in the paragraph is not a separate paragraph. To check, display
nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click Show/Hide ¶ on the Standard toolbar)
and make sure there is not a paragraph mark (¶) at the end of each line.

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"eric matschke" eric wrote in message
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I use styles in my Word docs and sometimes in part of the document (not
all
of it) some of the lines within a paragraph apply the "space before" and
"space after" paagraph settings. In other words some of the paragraphs
look
double spaced and some of them don't. If I remove the space before and
after
the paragraph, then the single spacing looks correct, but then there is no
space between paragraphs.