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Default How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?

I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the
large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text,
the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord
document. How do I eliminate this problem forever.

"grammatim" wrote:

On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42
wrote:
I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word
2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set
single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing?


Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the
toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs
between some lines.

Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks
in a row), Replace with ^p

There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can
remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again
replace with ^p.

(It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single
space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat
until it tell you it found 0 examples.)