That's because you are pressing 'Enter' twice to create the inter paragraph
space. Press it once!

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gskywalkers wrote:
Well, unfortunately I am not able to get this space reduced no matter
what I try. I put the 6 pts like you suggested and it makes the
space wider yet.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Aaaagggghhhh!!! Another one!

Let me point you to the book "The PC is Not a Typewriter" by Robin
Williams
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/093...lance&n=283155

- Do not use Enter to create space between paragraphs. There are
multiple reasons for this, of which the excessive space is only the
most obvious.

- Do use the "Space Before" or "Space After" settings in the Format
Paragraph dialog to create the space between paragraphs *without* the
extra Enters. For the half-line space you want, 6 points of Space
After is the usual choice.

- Do learn to use styles, and make the paragraph Space settings part
of the style definition. You can have different settings for
different kinds of paragraphs. For example, although you want 6 pt
Space After for Body Text, you may want 12 pt Space Before and 9 pt
Space After for a Heading 1 style. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sOnStyles.html and the
other style-related articles on Shauna's web site.

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:17:01 -0700, gskywalkers
wrote:

I am using Microsoft Word 2003 to write a book and using the
bookfold feature along with "page setup" however, there is too much
space between the paragraphs as well as too much space between the
conversations. As an example:

"How did you find the Microsoft Discussion Group?"
too much space here
"I found it by doing a search."

There is too much space between the above two quotes and I can't
seem to find a way to reduce it. I am using "enter" to create the
space. I would like this space to be about half of what "enter"
produces.