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

On the Layout tab of Page Setup, change the vertical alignment from
Justified to Top.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"ronaldnuma" wrote in message
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Thanks for the response. This seems to be a paragraph problem as simply
typing line to line, the second line is one space down as should it be.
Paragraph is set to: Indent = left 0, right 0; spacing = before 0pt, after
0pt; special = (none); line spacing = single. When view is normal,
paragraph
spacing is one line as it should be. However, when view is print layout, a
great space appears between paragraphs with no editing symbol at all
between
paragraph symbol. Something automatic in Word creats this gap in every new
document I create. Previously created documents open fine without this
paragraph spacing. What could it be?

"grammatim" wrote:

You might have a different problem from pjburton42.

Go to Format Paragraph and see if the Line Spacing is set to
something weird instead of a normal "double" or even "single" -- maybe
there's an "exactly" value that's very large. Also check that "Space
After" and "Space Before" are set to 0.

On Aug 20, 1:30 pm, ronaldnuma
wrote:
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.)-