Displaying nonprinting characters is always helpful, of course, and you
should not have an "double-return paragraph spaces"; instead, define and
apply a style with 1.5 line spacing and the required amount of Spacing
Before/After. Then Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Spacebar to remove all direct font
and paragraph formatting.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
I'm currently working on a document (text only, one font throughout) that
has been scanned (by someone else) from a printed book.
I'm seeing a curiously anomaly with regard to line spacing. I marked the
entire document and set spacing to 1.5, but some double-return paragraph
spaces are still spaced singly. If I mark the text where this happens and
look at Format/Paragraph, the spacing is reported as 1.5 even though it
palpably is not.
Is this an effect caused by the scanning procedure? Whether it is or not,
how can I eliminate it and set the entire document to 1.5?
I'm also seeing another oddity, though it's a less serious one: some words
have their letters spaced more widely than is normal for the Courier New
font I've set throughout (this is not due to full-width justification
having being accidentally turned on). Again, is this just a side effect
of the scanning?
Many thanks.
Bert