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Default Legal Pleading Paper and Line Spacing

The only way to accommodate this is the way the MS-supplied pleading
templates do, viz., with double-spaced line numbers in a text box anchored
to the header. It rather makes nonsense of the concept of line numbering if
only every other line is numbered, but you do what you have to do.

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"The DEW" wrote in message
...
I would think that there should be a more conventional way to solve this
problem than this. I tried this "text box' Fix-it and this doesn't solve

the
problem - the line numbers on the left still go to single space when I

switch
to single space in the text-box. Surely someone out there must be using

this
template and knows how to handle this ...... one cannot file a pleading

with
the caption box for the parties double-spaced !!!! Help!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

You might try putting the plaintiffs and defendants in text boxes
formatted as "in front of text". Line spacing in text boxes can be
different from the paragraph the text box is anchored to.

The DEW wrote:

When typing the parties in the caption, the lines default to double

spaced.
When I convert to single space - the line numbers on the left side of

the
pleading also go to single spacing. I need to keep double spacing on

the
line numbers on the left but get single spacing in the caption setting

forth
the plaintiffs and defendants ..... How do I do this ??? ..... Thanks