Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How do I single space lines in Word
I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out
how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
In Format | Paragraph, make sure that the line spacing is set to Single and
that there is no Space Before/After. If both are correct and you're still seeing larger-than-single spacing, make sure that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Diana" wrote in message ... I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't solve the problem. There's no
value other than "0" set in the before/after, and in page setup, the layout is set to "top." What puzzles me is that the problem just began happening, with no changes to my setup having been made. Opened up a new document (chapter), and suddenly I'm getting four spaces between paragraphs. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In Format | Paragraph, make sure that the line spacing is set to Single and that there is no Space Before/After. If both are correct and you're still seeing larger-than-single spacing, make sure that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Diana" wrote in message ... I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
I'm afraid I'm out of ideas; perhaps others can help?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "M Hirsh" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't solve the problem. There's no value other than "0" set in the before/after, and in page setup, the layout is set to "top." What puzzles me is that the problem just began happening, with no changes to my setup having been made. Opened up a new document (chapter), and suddenly I'm getting four spaces between paragraphs. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In Format | Paragraph, make sure that the line spacing is set to Single and that there is no Space Before/After. If both are correct and you're still seeing larger-than-single spacing, make sure that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Diana" wrote in message ... I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Suzanne's suggestions usually cure this kind of trouble. All I can
think of is the following: Are you using a different font or a larger font size? These are factors that might increase line height. -- Stefan Blom "M Hirsh" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't solve the problem. There's no value other than "0" set in the before/after, and in page setup, the layout is set to "top." What puzzles me is that the problem just began happening, with no changes to my setup having been made. Opened up a new document (chapter), and suddenly I'm getting four spaces between paragraphs. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In Format | Paragraph, make sure that the line spacing is set to Single and that there is no Space Before/After. If both are correct and you're still seeing larger-than-single spacing, make sure that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Diana" wrote in message ... I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
You may also want to follow the instructions in the "How can I fix a
corrupt document?" section of the article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm to get rid of possible document corruption. The procedure described in the article can also be applied to a template, if the problem occurs with newly created documents. If the problematic template in question is the blank document template (normal.dot) there is a simpler fix: just rename it and have Word create a fresh copy for you, as described in the "Creating a new Normal.dot from scratch" section of the article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm. -- Stefan Blom "M Hirsh" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't solve the problem. There's no value other than "0" set in the before/after, and in page setup, the layout is set to "top." What puzzles me is that the problem just began happening, with no changes to my setup having been made. Opened up a new document (chapter), and suddenly I'm getting four spaces between paragraphs. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In Format | Paragraph, make sure that the line spacing is set to Single and that there is no Space Before/After. If both are correct and you're still seeing larger-than-single spacing, make sure that the vertical alignment (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Diana" wrote in message ... I have been to Formatting in the Toolbar area. I am not able to figure out how to have single spaces between lines in my Word document. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
I'm usiing Word 2000 with Windows XP Pro.
I'd been writing a double spaced manuscript. To go to the next paragraph, I click "enter" once. It had been working fine, but all of a sudden, when I do that, it gives me four spaces instead of two between the paragraphs. I've gone to paragraph formatting, and can't seem to fix the problem (which popped up out of nowhere). If I leave the spacing at "double space" it keeps giving me four lines between graphs. Any help is appreciated, because my editor is going to kill me. Thanks. Michael Hirsh |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
It's possible that you have some Space Before/After in your paragraphs (you
could have added 12 pts Space Before by pressing Ctrl+0). If that's not the case, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and make sure the vertical alignment is set to Top and not Justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "M Hirsh" wrote in message ... I'm usiing Word 2000 with Windows XP Pro. I'd been writing a double spaced manuscript. To go to the next paragraph, I click "enter" once. It had been working fine, but all of a sudden, when I do that, it gives me four spaces instead of two between the paragraphs. I've gone to paragraph formatting, and can't seem to fix the problem (which popped up out of nowhere). If I leave the spacing at "double space" it keeps giving me four lines between graphs. Any help is appreciated, because my editor is going to kill me. Thanks. Michael Hirsh |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
How can I divide a page into three sections? | Microsoft Word Help | |||
word xp crashes after macros are recorded | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Continuous breaks convert to next page breaks | Microsoft Word Help | |||
macro in word | Microsoft Word Help | |||
saving the workspace | Microsoft Word Help |