[Graham Mayor]

Word 2007 provides the opportunity to use style sets. You can save your
preferences as a personal style set.

The 1.15 spacing was undoubtedly chosen because of presentation. It looks
better on the page. However you are not obliged to stick with that if you
prefer something different. You could have left the 2007 styles as they were
and chosen the 2003 style set from the Styles dialog on the home tab which
would have removed the additional spacing from the normal style making its
spacing similar to that of Word 2003, without the need to make any changes
to existing styles.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

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"techcnc" wrote in message
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It is easy enough to change the normal.dotm template. But what is normal
spacing anyway? There was probably a good reason to make it 1.15. I
changed
mine to 1.0 just because I like round numbers.

"busedteach" wrote:

I agree. Why on earth would they change the default document to space
1.15
anyway. No one types documents with that kind of spacing. I am a
teacher
and it is annoying to have to explain to each student how to change their
document every time they open it up. I've had no luck yet figuring out
how
to change the templete. Wasting my valuable time I need to planning for
class!

"Doug" wrote:

If Microsoft didn't keep changing things around and forcing us to buy
their
new products, they wouldn't have enough business. This is madenning.
They
should write a book on how to make a simple task a major
pain-in-the-ass,
because this used to be simple. What a waste of time!

"JGT" wrote:

OK now I'm totally confused after reading all the previous post.
Recently I
upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 (wow what a pain-in-the-ass
change)
and cannot easily find stuff (sorry but IMHO the ribbon is a GIANT
step
backwards). I get so tired of clicking on things only to discover
what I'm
looking for is not there. In office 2003 I made extensive
modifications to
the normal.dot file and now I want these changes in my normal.dotm
file. In
2003 I could open a document and merge the template of the open
document into
my normal template. Is this possible in 2007? If so how?