I think it looks unprofessional to have an extra line at the top of a page
where double spacing and where text ends on a page creates it. I'm used to
WordPerfect, which automatically suppresses such lines. Word doesn't. I
ahve not been able to find anything in Word documentation on this subject,
Is there some way to set it so such lines are automatically suppressed in a
document? If you change an individual instance manually, then it doesn't
look right after edits change pagination.

How are you achieving the double spacing?

Even though there are various options under ToolsOptionsCompatibilty to
suppress extra line spacing (including one for suppressing "extra line
spacing like WordPerfect 5.x"), I do not get extra lines at the top of the
page when I format paragraphs as double spaced when a paragraph breaks over
a page, even without any of the Suppress Options checked.

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"Bill Samuel" Bill wrote in message
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I think it looks unprofessional to have an extra line at the top of a page
where double spacing and where text ends on a page creates it. I'm used
to
WordPerfect, which automatically suppresses such lines. Word doesn't. I
ahve not been able to find anything in Word documentation on this subject,
Is there some way to set it so such lines are automatically suppressed in
a
document? If you change an individual instance manually, then it doesn't
look right after edits change pagination.

I suspect your "double spacing" refers to a "blank line" between paragraphs
created by pressing Enter twice, which inserts an empty paragraph. A
paragraph in Word is a much more important entity in than in WP because each
paragraph mark holds a lot of formatting information, and inserting empty
paragraphs is a waste of resources that will increase your file size. You
should instead be using Space Before/After added to the paragraph format. An
easy way to add 12 pts Space Before (the equivalent of a blank line) is to
press Ctrl+0, but of course it is far preferable to achieve this effect
using styles. This Space Before will be suppressed at the top of a page (and
Space After is suppressed at the bottom).

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"Bill Samuel" Bill wrote in message
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I think it looks unprofessional to have an extra line at the top of a page
where double spacing and where text ends on a page creates it. I'm used
to
WordPerfect, which automatically suppresses such lines. Word doesn't. I
ahve not been able to find anything in Word documentation on this subject,
Is there some way to set it so such lines are automatically suppressed in
a
document? If you change an individual instance manually, then it doesn't
look right after edits change pagination.