[Peter T. Daniels]

I don't use the Style Gallery at all, and I set my Normal style the
way I wanted it, so the problem never arises.

On May 18, 2:06*pm, Arlene wrote:
I agree completely. It turns documents that would otherwise be 1 page long
into 2 pages for no apparent reason. Would you agree that the simplest
workaround is to either select the Word 2003 Style Set as the default; or if
you like the other styles in the Word 2007 or Word 2010 Style Set, keep it,
but for letters, reports, etc., press Ctrl + A and click the No Spacing style?



"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
But the parameter they settled on is inexplicable. The traditional 10%
or so leading, the old "Single Space," which comes out to about
12/14.3, didn't present that kind of problem; it would arise if you
went for 12/12 in some fonts, or for fonts with small x-heights (such
as Garamond), not until you had negative leading -- such as 12/10.

One of the reasons I hate Knuth's "Computer Modern" (i.e., what you
get when you use LaTeX out of the box) is the far-too-great line-
spacing (though it's far from the only reason), and maybe some MS
engineer decided to imitate it. (Without consulting experts in
literacy, readability, etc.)

On May 17, 4:20 pm, "Yves Dhondt" wrote:
Sometimes when I read a tightly spaced (in height) printed text it happens
that when I come to the end of a line and move my eyes back to read the next
line, I end up skipping a line or returning to the same line. This is
probably more an issue of me having one lazy eye, but I guess that a more
widely spaced text deminishes that problem.

Yves

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message

...

Indeed.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
I'd sure like to know where they got the idea that the excess line
spacing makes the text "easier to read" -- and also why they picked a
font that they think is "optimized for monitor display" -- especially
now that there are so many different kinds of displays in use --
rather than best for print on paper.

On May 17, 12:48 pm, "Yves Dhondt" wrote:
Where do you get the idea that "enough people are dissatisfied with it"?
Especially if you end your message with "and I suspect I'm not alone."

Anyway,
checkhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102310271033.aspxfor
an explaination.

I'm impartial towards the line height but I am a huge fan of the addition
of
whitespace at the end of a paragraph. People just pressed enter too many
times creating empty paragraphs all over the place and making automation
always a tad more difficult.

Yves

"Arlene" wrote in message

...

Can someone explain why Microsoft opted to change the default style set
in
Word 2007 and now in Word 2010 to include mutliple line spacing at 1..15
between lines and 10-pt. spacing after paragraphs? Evidently, enough
people
are dissatisfied with it that they also opted to continue the Word 2003
Style
Set as a style option. I greatly dislike the 2007/2010 Style Set and I
suspect I'm not alone.

Thanks in advance for any input.--