You may need to change it to Exactly *something*. Whatever spacing gives you
the same number of lines as your classmates. Either that or diddle with your
margins or disable "Widow/orphan control," etc.

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"Melody Koh" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,

Thanks for your help. So the only way I can do this is change my spacing
to
"Exactly 14''" whenever I want a single spacing that looks like others?

Thanks,
Melody

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm

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"Melody Koh" Melody wrote in message
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Whenever I use Single spacing for my assignments, I always notice that
my
piece of paper has much less words than all my other classmates- my
spacing
is just wider even though I checked million times that I used single
spacing
(same problem for double spacing). I'm in the U.S. but my windows XP
is in
Chinese (my Office 2002 is in English though)- is this the cause of
the
problem? How should I do to permanently change the spacing settion so
that
it'll be the same with everyone else's word documents?