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MS Word 2007 - Double Spacing Lines by default - how to turn off ?
Figured it out. Don't go to 'page layout', go to 'Home' which is the large button on the LHS. Middle of the screen there is a button with a doubleheaded arrow to the left of some bars. Hit that. Go to line spacing options. Up to now I have been punching radio buttons, but you don't have to do that. Set the two 'before' and 'after' spacing box to zero. I have even managed to get new .docs to give single spacing. If I was going to write stupid front ends to software, I would make sure that there is always a command line interface for that software, so that when all else failed, you can just give it the command from the command line, without having to surf through lots of badly named and badly grouped menus. set linespace currentdoc nil set linespace normaltemplate nil This way, however hard you try to screw up the front end, someone can always get some work done in spite of you. -- Hi I am struggling with this new POS MS Word 2007 (at least I think it is 2007 - there is no Help/About menu by which I can tell). For some reason you get a double-spaced document when you start MS Word and eventually I found a place were you can get at the spacing (I'd tell you where it is but I cannot find it again). If you click/unclick a lot of checkboxes several times and alter the line spacing then you can turn off this double spacing thing. I tried getting Word 2007 to stay un-double-spaced but it does not seem to work. Does anyone know how I can fix this ? I don't have a copy of the previous Word to get on with any work and I am having to draft in TextPad and paste into a saved document in MS Word then fool with the formating in there to create a new document. TIA |
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MS Word 2007 - Double Spacing Lines by default - how to turn off ?
So you didn't bother to read any of the replies? Who mentioned the Page
Layout tab? -- Terry wrote in message ... Figured it out. Don't go to 'page layout', go to 'Home' which is the large button on the LHS. Middle of the screen there is a button with a doubleheaded arrow to the left of some bars. Hit that. Go to line spacing options. Up to now I have been punching radio buttons, but you don't have to do that. Set the two 'before' and 'after' spacing box to zero. I have even managed to get new .docs to give single spacing. If I was going to write stupid front ends to software, I would make sure that there is always a command line interface for that software, so that when all else failed, you can just give it the command from the command line, without having to surf through lots of badly named and badly grouped menus. set linespace currentdoc nil set linespace normaltemplate nil This way, however hard you try to screw up the front end, someone can always get some work done in spite of you. -- Hi I am struggling with this new POS MS Word 2007 (at least I think it is 2007 - there is no Help/About menu by which I can tell). For some reason you get a double-spaced document when you start MS Word and eventually I found a place were you can get at the spacing (I'd tell you where it is but I cannot find it again). If you click/unclick a lot of checkboxes several times and alter the line spacing then you can turn off this double spacing thing. I tried getting Word 2007 to stay un-double-spaced but it does not seem to work. Does anyone know how I can fix this ? I don't have a copy of the previous Word to get on with any work and I am having to draft in TextPad and paste into a saved document in MS Word then fool with the formating in there to create a new document. TIA |
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