On the Compatibility tab of Tools | Options, check the box for "Don't use
HTML paragraph auto spacing."

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"Dao Nguyen" Dao wrote in message
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This occurrs when I set a paragraph spacing after to 12pt and the previous
paragraph spacing before is also set to 12pt. On screen it should show
spacing similar to double spacing but doesn't.

(Hopes this make sense)

Has anyone experienced this problem?

Thank you
Dao