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How do I single space the delivery address for an envelope?
I am trying to single space the delivery address for an envelope. The last
time I did an envelope, the delivery address was automatically set for single spacing. However, this time the spacing is automatically set for double spacing. No matter what I try, the line spacing remains at double space. |
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You do not explain how you are trying to do your envelope. Are you using a
file for an envelope or Word's Envelopes feature (Tools, Letters &Mailing, Envelopes and labels; this may vary a lilttle depending on your veriosn of Word)? I assume the latter. In that case Word formats the label using the style Envelope Address. Word runs on Styles, even though most users are blissfull unaware of it until they have a problem like yours! The answer and solution take a little explaining. Unless you have changed Word's default settings (which is fine) for it particular style is based on the Normal style. If you use double spacing in Normal you will end up with similar formatting on any style based on Normal unless you have modified that style, including Envelope Address. If you want a demo, open a blank document, use the Envelope feature to address an envelope. Iinstead of printing the envelope click Add to Document. Now put the cursor in the address and you will see Envelope Address in the little style window up there on one of your toolbars. Click Format, Styles & Formatting, right click on Envelope Address, select Modify and you should see that this style is based on Normal. Change your Normal style and watch as similar changes show up in your Envelope Address. (Again, unless you have modified this style) (If you have already modified this style, then the answer is simple--modify it some more and skip the rest of this explanation!) Changing your spacing in Normal will make the envelope address single spaced, but this is a little awkward since there might be times you really want your document (not the envelope) double spaced. If you always want your envelope addresses single spaced here is a way to do it in Word 2003. The details may vary slightly for another version of Word. Open a blank document and go to Format, Styles & Formatting. The Styles & Formatting window opens. Unless you have played around a lot with styles you will probably see only a few styles listed in the window. Down at the bottom you will see the small window Show. It probably says Styles in Use. Click on the triangle and chage it to All Styles. Now you will see a huge list of styles. Right click on Envelope Address and select Modify. In the Modify Style window select Format, Paragraph and set your line spacing to single or anything else you want. You can specify any font, etc. while you are there. Once you have made yhour changes click OK. Before you close the Modify Styles window be sure you have a check mark in the box for Add to Template. Most mavens recommend you have no check mark in the box for Automatically Update because you can get a lot of unanticipated formatting problems down the line as Word automatically does something you probably did not really want. No need to save your document, but you will probably get a prompt asking if you wanted to update Normal.dot. The answer isYes. Note: In the course of doing this you should have seen another style, Envelope Return. That, of course, is for formatting a return address on your envelope. You can set that using the same steps. The next time you open a blank document and use Word's Envelope feature you should get nice single spacing on the outside of the envelope, without regard to how you have formatted what you want to put in the envelope. One word of caution: This assumes that you are using Normal.dot, which is the default template for a Word document--it's what you get when you open a plain old blank document. This is another structural feature of Word--every document is based on a template. If you create a document based on any other template you may have saved and use the Envelope feature, Word will follow the formatting in Envelope Address for Normal.dot unless you modified that style in your own template. I have different envelope formatting depending on what template I am using. I seem to recall somebody on this forum having a slighly simpler wayof doing this but I cannot recall the details. "envelope man" envelope wrote in message ... I am trying to single space the delivery address for an envelope. The last time I did an envelope, the delivery address was automatically set for single spacing. However, this time the spacing is automatically set for double spacing. No matter what I try, the line spacing remains at double space. |
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To add to what Joe has said, if the problem does result from having made
Normal style double-spaced, then you can see why we recommend against changing Normal style. You can format Body Text style to your requirements and use it instead; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm -- 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. "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... You do not explain how you are trying to do your envelope. Are you using a file for an envelope or Word's Envelopes feature (Tools, Letters &Mailing, Envelopes and labels; this may vary a lilttle depending on your veriosn of Word)? I assume the latter. In that case Word formats the label using the style Envelope Address. Word runs on Styles, even though most users are blissfull unaware of it until they have a problem like yours! The answer and solution take a little explaining. Unless you have changed Word's default settings (which is fine) for it particular style is based on the Normal style. If you use double spacing in Normal you will end up with similar formatting on any style based on Normal unless you have modified that style, including Envelope Address. If you want a demo, open a blank document, use the Envelope feature to address an envelope. Iinstead of printing the envelope click Add to Document. Now put the cursor in the address and you will see Envelope Address in the little style window up there on one of your toolbars. Click Format, Styles & Formatting, right click on Envelope Address, select Modify and you should see that this style is based on Normal. Change your Normal style and watch as similar changes show up in your Envelope Address. (Again, unless you have modified this style) (If you have already modified this style, then the answer is simple--modify it some more and skip the rest of this explanation!) Changing your spacing in Normal will make the envelope address single spaced, but this is a little awkward since there might be times you really want your document (not the envelope) double spaced. If you always want your envelope addresses single spaced here is a way to do it in Word 2003. The details may vary slightly for another version of Word. Open a blank document and go to Format, Styles & Formatting. The Styles & Formatting window opens. Unless you have played around a lot with styles you will probably see only a few styles listed in the window. Down at the bottom you will see the small window Show. It probably says Styles in Use. Click on the triangle and chage it to All Styles. Now you will see a huge list of styles. Right click on Envelope Address and select Modify. In the Modify Style window select Format, Paragraph and set your line spacing to single or anything else you want. You can specify any font, etc. while you are there. Once you have made yhour changes click OK. Before you close the Modify Styles window be sure you have a check mark in the box for Add to Template. Most mavens recommend you have no check mark in the box for Automatically Update because you can get a lot of unanticipated formatting problems down the line as Word automatically does something you probably did not really want. No need to save your document, but you will probably get a prompt asking if you wanted to update Normal.dot. The answer isYes. Note: In the course of doing this you should have seen another style, Envelope Return. That, of course, is for formatting a return address on your envelope. You can set that using the same steps. The next time you open a blank document and use Word's Envelope feature you should get nice single spacing on the outside of the envelope, without regard to how you have formatted what you want to put in the envelope. One word of caution: This assumes that you are using Normal.dot, which is the default template for a Word document--it's what you get when you open a plain old blank document. This is another structural feature of Word--every document is based on a template. If you create a document based on any other template you may have saved and use the Envelope feature, Word will follow the formatting in Envelope Address for Normal.dot unless you modified that style in your own template. I have different envelope formatting depending on what template I am using. I seem to recall somebody on this forum having a slighly simpler wayof doing this but I cannot recall the details. "envelope man" envelope wrote in message ... I am trying to single space the delivery address for an envelope. The last time I did an envelope, the delivery address was automatically set for single spacing. However, this time the spacing is automatically set for double spacing. No matter what I try, the line spacing remains at double space. |
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Note also that the envelope wizard will pick up any manual formatting from
an address selected from the document -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: To add to what Joe has said, if the problem does result from having made Normal style double-spaced, then you can see why we recommend against changing Normal style. You can format Body Text style to your requirements and use it instead; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... You do not explain how you are trying to do your envelope. Are you using a file for an envelope or Word's Envelopes feature (Tools, Letters &Mailing, Envelopes and labels; this may vary a lilttle depending on your veriosn of Word)? I assume the latter. In that case Word formats the label using the style Envelope Address. Word runs on Styles, even though most users are blissfull unaware of it until they have a problem like yours! The answer and solution take a little explaining. Unless you have changed Word's default settings (which is fine) for it particular style is based on the Normal style. If you use double spacing in Normal you will end up with similar formatting on any style based on Normal unless you have modified that style, including Envelope Address. If you want a demo, open a blank document, use the Envelope feature to address an envelope. Iinstead of printing the envelope click Add to Document. Now put the cursor in the address and you will see Envelope Address in the little style window up there on one of your toolbars. Click Format, Styles & Formatting, right click on Envelope Address, select Modify and you should see that this style is based on Normal. Change your Normal style and watch as similar changes show up in your Envelope Address. (Again, unless you have modified this style) (If you have already modified this style, then the answer is simple--modify it some more and skip the rest of this explanation!) Changing your spacing in Normal will make the envelope address single spaced, but this is a little awkward since there might be times you really want your document (not the envelope) double spaced. If you always want your envelope addresses single spaced here is a way to do it in Word 2003. The details may vary slightly for another version of Word. Open a blank document and go to Format, Styles & Formatting. The Styles & Formatting window opens. Unless you have played around a lot with styles you will probably see only a few styles listed in the window. Down at the bottom you will see the small window Show. It probably says Styles in Use. Click on the triangle and chage it to All Styles. Now you will see a huge list of styles. Right click on Envelope Address and select Modify. In the Modify Style window select Format, Paragraph and set your line spacing to single or anything else you want. You can specify any font, etc. while you are there. Once you have made yhour changes click OK. Before you close the Modify Styles window be sure you have a check mark in the box for Add to Template. Most mavens recommend you have no check mark in the box for Automatically Update because you can get a lot of unanticipated formatting problems down the line as Word automatically does something you probably did not really want. No need to save your document, but you will probably get a prompt asking if you wanted to update Normal.dot. The answer isYes. Note: In the course of doing this you should have seen another style, Envelope Return. That, of course, is for formatting a return address on your envelope. You can set that using the same steps. The next time you open a blank document and use Word's Envelope feature you should get nice single spacing on the outside of the envelope, without regard to how you have formatted what you want to put in the envelope. One word of caution: This assumes that you are using Normal.dot, which is the default template for a Word document--it's what you get when you open a plain old blank document. This is another structural feature of Word--every document is based on a template. If you create a document based on any other template you may have saved and use the Envelope feature, Word will follow the formatting in Envelope Address for Normal.dot unless you modified that style in your own template. I have different envelope formatting depending on what template I am using. I seem to recall somebody on this forum having a slighly simpler wayof doing this but I cannot recall the details. "envelope man" envelope wrote in message ... I am trying to single space the delivery address for an envelope. The last time I did an envelope, the delivery address was automatically set for single spacing. However, this time the spacing is automatically set for double spacing. No matter what I try, the line spacing remains at double space. |
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