[Terry Farrell]

Try Format, Paragraph and check the Space Before and After settings.
Usually, Space Before is set to 0pt and Space After to 12pts, but it sounds
as though it has changed one or other to a much larger value.

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Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Retired" wrote in message
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I have been using Microsoft Office 2003 for quite some time on my Windows
XP system. Now suddenly I am experiencing strange line spacing in Word. For
example, after typing the first line of text and hitting Enter, the cursor
skips halfway down the page.

What is causing this behavior? How do I get it corrected? Normally I use
single spacing for nearly everything to be typed, and when paragraph
separation is desired, I just hit Enter.

Thank you.