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I am writing a double spaced research paper. When I press "enter" to start a
new paragraph, the space between the last paragraph and the new one is HUGE
(and my professor pointed it out on my draft and said that I needed to
eliminate the extra space).
If I do NOT press enter to form a new paragraph, but use the space bar to
make my new paragraph's first line start on the line just under the previous
paragraph, when I try to indent the first line, Word indents the ENTIRE
paragraph before (the one that I spaced down from). This is really annoying
and a waste of space on a page-limited paper! (besides the fact that if I
don't correct it I will lose points on the final draft)
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You probably have some space before/after set. Go to Format | Paragraph and
check the Spacing after and Spacing before. This should be 0 (zero). Does
this solve your problem?
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I am writing a double spaced research paper. When I press "enter" to start a
new paragraph, the space between the last paragraph and the new one is HUGE
(and my professor pointed it out on my draft and said that I needed to
eliminate the extra space).
If I do NOT press enter to form a new paragraph, but use the space bar to
make my new paragraph's first line start on the line just under the previous
paragraph, when I try to indent the first line, Word indents the ENTIRE
paragraph before (the one that I spaced down from). This is really annoying
and a waste of space on a page-limited paper! (besides the fact that if I
don't correct it I will lose points on the final draft)

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Thanks Rae this solution was perfect.

"Rae Drysdale" wrote:

You probably have some space before/after set. Go to Format | Paragraph and
check the Spacing after and Spacing before. This should be 0 (zero). Does
this solve your problem?
--
Rae Drysdale


"shadykt2" wrote:

I am writing a double spaced research paper. When I press "enter" to start a
new paragraph, the space between the last paragraph and the new one is HUGE
(and my professor pointed it out on my draft and said that I needed to
eliminate the extra space).
If I do NOT press enter to form a new paragraph, but use the space bar to
make my new paragraph's first line start on the line just under the previous
paragraph, when I try to indent the first line, Word indents the ENTIRE
paragraph before (the one that I spaced down from). This is really annoying
and a waste of space on a page-limited paper! (besides the fact that if I
don't correct it I will lose points on the final draft)

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