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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word
2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
On Jan 28, 4:38*pm, pjburton42
wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc *Some lines have very large spaces between them. *I have set single line spacing. *How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.) |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
Thanks. There were some empty paragraphs, which I deleted, and also some
section breaks, which can be removed by putting the cursor before the break and pressing 'delete'. I also cleared some of the space by choosing 'clear formatting' from the style menu. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.) |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the
large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text, the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord document. How do I eliminate this problem forever. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.) |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
You might have a different problem from pjburton42.
Go to Format Paragraph and see if the Line Spacing is set to something weird instead of a normal "double" or even "single" -- maybe there's an "exactly" value that's very large. Also check that "Space After" and "Space Before" are set to 0. On Aug 20, 1:30*pm, ronaldnuma wrote: I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text, the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord document. How do I eliminate this problem forever. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc *Some lines have very large spaces between them. *I have set single line spacing. *How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find *^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.)- |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
Thanks for the response. This seems to be a paragraph problem as simply
typing line to line, the second line is one space down as should it be. Paragraph is set to: Indent = left 0, right 0; spacing = before 0pt, after 0pt; special = (none); line spacing = single. When view is normal, paragraph spacing is one line as it should be. However, when view is print layout, a great space appears between paragraphs with no editing symbol at all between paragraph symbol. Something automatic in Word creats this gap in every new document I create. Previously created documents open fine without this paragraph spacing. What could it be? "grammatim" wrote: You might have a different problem from pjburton42. Go to Format Paragraph and see if the Line Spacing is set to something weird instead of a normal "double" or even "single" -- maybe there's an "exactly" value that's very large. Also check that "Space After" and "Space Before" are set to 0. On Aug 20, 1:30 pm, ronaldnuma wrote: I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text, the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord document. How do I eliminate this problem forever. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.)- |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
On the Layout tab of Page Setup, change the vertical alignment from
Justified to Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "ronaldnuma" wrote in message ... Thanks for the response. This seems to be a paragraph problem as simply typing line to line, the second line is one space down as should it be. Paragraph is set to: Indent = left 0, right 0; spacing = before 0pt, after 0pt; special = (none); line spacing = single. When view is normal, paragraph spacing is one line as it should be. However, when view is print layout, a great space appears between paragraphs with no editing symbol at all between paragraph symbol. Something automatic in Word creats this gap in every new document I create. Previously created documents open fine without this paragraph spacing. What could it be? "grammatim" wrote: You might have a different problem from pjburton42. Go to Format Paragraph and see if the Line Spacing is set to something weird instead of a normal "double" or even "single" -- maybe there's an "exactly" value that's very large. Also check that "Space After" and "Space Before" are set to 0. On Aug 20, 1:30 pm, ronaldnuma wrote: I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text, the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord document. How do I eliminate this problem forever. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.)- |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
Thank you Suzanne, that worked.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: On the Layout tab of Page Setup, change the vertical alignment from Justified to Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "ronaldnuma" wrote in message ... Thanks for the response. This seems to be a paragraph problem as simply typing line to line, the second line is one space down as should it be. Paragraph is set to: Indent = left 0, right 0; spacing = before 0pt, after 0pt; special = (none); line spacing = single. When view is normal, paragraph spacing is one line as it should be. However, when view is print layout, a great space appears between paragraphs with no editing symbol at all between paragraph symbol. Something automatic in Word creats this gap in every new document I create. Previously created documents open fine without this paragraph spacing. What could it be? "grammatim" wrote: You might have a different problem from pjburton42. Go to Format Paragraph and see if the Line Spacing is set to something weird instead of a normal "double" or even "single" -- maybe there's an "exactly" value that's very large. Also check that "Space After" and "Space Before" are set to 0. On Aug 20, 1:30 pm, ronaldnuma wrote: I did the find and replace ^p^p with ^p which worked fine eliminating the large gap between lines. However, as soon as I added another line of text, the same gap reappeared. This happens each time I start a new MSWord document. How do I eliminate this problem forever. "grammatim" wrote: On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, pjburton42 wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? Turn on your non-printing characters (click the paragraph mark in the toolbar) and see if OmniPage didn't insert a bunch of empty paragraphs between some lines. Get rid of them with Find and Replace: Find ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row), Replace with ^p There might also be empty spaces in those empty paragraphs -- you can remove them by Find ^p (that is, type a space before ^p) and again replace with ^p. (It wouldn't hurt to first replace all multiple spaces with a single space -- just Find two spaces and Replace with one space, and repeat until it tell you it found 0 examples.)- |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
I followed all the steps the ^p replacing,and there were 38 of them. Then did
the justified to the top setting and all this worked. No more typing one sentence hitting enter and the next sentence starts at the bottom of the page. But I opened a new page and tried a couple sentences to see if it still worked correctly, but it didn't. I have to change the setting from justified to top so all sentences stay together. Please help. And if you can tell me how to get back to a plain sheet of paper instead of a graph paper each time I open a new document cause I have no ideal how that happened. I opened it up and there it was. "pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
I followed all the steps the ^p replacing,and there were 38 of them. Then did
the justified to the top setting and all this worked. No more typing one sentence hitting enter and the next sentence starts at the bottom of the page. But I opened a new page and tried a couple sentences to see if it still worked correctly, but it didn't. I have to change the setting from justified to top so all sentences stay together. Please help. And if you can tell me how to get back to a plain sheet of paper instead of a graph paper each time I open a new document cause I have no ideal how that happened. I opened it up and there it was. "pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
I followed all the steps the ^p replacing,and there were 38 of them. Then did
the justified to the top setting and all this worked. No more typing one sentence hitting enter and the next sentence starts at the bottom of the page. But I opened a new page and tried a couple sentences to see if it still worked correctly, but it didn't. I have to change the setting from justified to top so all sentences stay together. Please help. And if you can tell me how to get back to a plain sheet of paper instead of a graph paper each time I open a new document cause I have no ideal how that happened. I opened it up and there it was. "pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
For the top justification problem, you have to do the same fix in the Normal.dot
template (or Normal.dotm if you have Word 2007). After changing the setting in the Page Setup dialog, click the Default button at the bottom of the dialog to change the Normal template. To remove the grid, if you have Word 2003 or earlier, display the Drawing toolbar. Click the Draw button at the left end, click Grid, and uncheck the "Display gridlines on screen" option. If you have Word 2007, click the View tab of the ribbon and uncheck the Gridlines box in the Show/Hide group. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:23:01 -0800, traci718 wrote: I followed all the steps the ^p replacing,and there were 38 of them. Then did the justified to the top setting and all this worked. No more typing one sentence hitting enter and the next sentence starts at the bottom of the page. But I opened a new page and tried a couple sentences to see if it still worked correctly, but it didn't. I have to change the setting from justified to top so all sentences stay together. Please help. And if you can tell me how to get back to a plain sheet of paper instead of a graph paper each time I open a new document cause I have no ideal how that happened. I opened it up and there it was. "pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
In a new Blank Document, without making any other changes, go to Page Setup
and change the vertical alignment to Top. Then click Default... and answer yes to the ensuing dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "traci718" wrote in message ... I followed all the steps the ^p replacing,and there were 38 of them. Then did the justified to the top setting and all this worked. No more typing one sentence hitting enter and the next sentence starts at the bottom of the page. But I opened a new page and tried a couple sentences to see if it still worked correctly, but it didn't. I have to change the setting from justified to top so all sentences stay together. Please help. And if you can tell me how to get back to a plain sheet of paper instead of a graph paper each time I open a new document cause I have no ideal how that happened. I opened it up and there it was. "pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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How do I stop Word putting big spaces between lines?
"pjburton42" wrote: I scanned a document using OmniPage Pro. and saved it as a Microsoft Word 2000XP.doc Some lines have very large spaces between them. I have set single line spacing. How do I get proper single line spacing? |
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