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Ensure single space at next line
I've created a doc where, in some cases, the line spacing is not exactly
single spaced - as I'd like for it to be. It may be ALMOST right, but not exactly. Sometime back, I asked about a similar problem and somebody told me to go to the end of the line and key in ??????? (shortcut keys) and the next line would be single spaced. But I can't find how to do that and I've lost my notes. Can somebody please help? Thanks, Doug |
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You can insert a line break rather than a paragraph break by pressing
Shift+Enter, but that won't change the line spacing of the paragraph. If the Space Before/After is the issue, then you should probably deal with that rather than create an entire document in a single paragraph. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Mc" wrote in message ... I've created a doc where, in some cases, the line spacing is not exactly single spaced - as I'd like for it to be. It may be ALMOST right, but not exactly. Sometime back, I asked about a similar problem and somebody told me to go to the end of the line and key in ??????? (shortcut keys) and the next line would be single spaced. But I can't find how to do that and I've lost my notes. Can somebody please help? Thanks, Doug |
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OK, let's be sure that I understand:
In this case, I normally type a line or two then press Enter when I'm at the end of the line. In about 90% of the cases that adds the next line single-spaced; however for some reason there's a little extra space - not a full one- before the next line. That's what I am trying to fix. So, I guess you're saying press shift+enter at the end of the line rather than just Enter?? And I guess I don't know how to "deal wiith Space Before/After." And I'm not trying to create the entire document in a single paragraph. Please let me know if I understand or not. Thanks, Doug ps. I thought a few months ago someone told me to do the key-stroke thing at the end of a line and it would "guarantee" the next line would be spaced properly??????? I musta dreamed it! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can insert a line break rather than a paragraph break by pressing Shift+Enter, but that won't change the line spacing of the paragraph. If the Space Before/After is the issue, then you should probably deal with that rather than create an entire document in a single paragraph. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Mc" wrote in message ... I've created a doc where, in some cases, the line spacing is not exactly single spaced - as I'd like for it to be. It may be ALMOST right, but not exactly. Sometime back, I asked about a similar problem and somebody told me to go to the end of the line and key in ??????? (shortcut keys) and the next line would be single spaced. But I can't find how to do that and I've lost my notes. Can somebody please help? Thanks, Doug |
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When you press Enter, you are creating a new paragraph. The line spacing
that you set in Format | Paragraph affects only the spacing between lines in the paragraph. The spacing between paragraphs (which is what you get when you press Enter) may be greater if the Spacing Before or Spacing After setting is greater than 0. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Mc" wrote in message ... OK, let's be sure that I understand: In this case, I normally type a line or two then press Enter when I'm at the end of the line. In about 90% of the cases that adds the next line single-spaced; however for some reason there's a little extra space - not a full one- before the next line. That's what I am trying to fix. So, I guess you're saying press shift+enter at the end of the line rather than just Enter?? And I guess I don't know how to "deal wiith Space Before/After." And I'm not trying to create the entire document in a single paragraph. Please let me know if I understand or not. Thanks, Doug ps. I thought a few months ago someone told me to do the key-stroke thing at the end of a line and it would "guarantee" the next line would be spaced properly??????? I musta dreamed it! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can insert a line break rather than a paragraph break by pressing Shift+Enter, but that won't change the line spacing of the paragraph. If the Space Before/After is the issue, then you should probably deal with that rather than create an entire document in a single paragraph. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Mc" wrote in message ... I've created a doc where, in some cases, the line spacing is not exactly single spaced - as I'd like for it to be. It may be ALMOST right, but not exactly. Sometime back, I asked about a similar problem and somebody told me to go to the end of the line and key in ??????? (shortcut keys) and the next line would be single spaced. But I can't find how to do that and I've lost my notes. Can somebody please help? Thanks, Doug |
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Doug:
All the options we're talking about are available to you through the Format Paragraph command. When you type and type until your text is two or three lines long (without having pressed Enter) the space between the lines is defined by the Line Spacing value. When you type one line, then press Enter to create a new paragraph, the Spacing Before value determines how much space there is between the last line of the previous paragraph and the first line of the new paragraph. There's a big difference between letting word wrap create multiple lines and pressing Enter to create multiple paragraphs. The paragraph definition applies to all the lines in a given paragraph. When you press Shift+Enter, you're not creating a new paragraph. You're just forcing a new line in the same paragraph. In effect, you're overriding the automatic word wrap. But the space between the lines is still controlled by the Line Spacing value, because you're still in the same paragraph. You should click the Show/Hide button (the one with the backwards P) to show the nonprinting characters. You'll see that paragraphs end with a mark that looks like a backward P, but line breaks (Shift+Enter) look like a "left arrow with a tail." Finally, the paragraph settings you apply by clicking Format Paragraph only apply to the current paragraph. To affect the settings for all paragraphs, you have to work with styles. Notice the style name of the paragraph you're currently in. If you click Format Style, you'll see that same style selected and ready to examine or modify. If you click Modify Format Paragraph, you'll come to the same dialog box you saw when you clicked Format Paragraph. (The exact command path may be different for Word 2003 and 2007.) However, when you change the Spacing Before value for the style, you change the space before for ALL paragraphs in your document that use that style. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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Thanks to you, Bear and Suzanne, I now understand.
It's good to have folks to help dummies like me! Doug "Bear" (nospam) wrote in message ... Doug: All the options we're talking about are available to you through the Format Paragraph command. When you type and type until your text is two or three lines long (without having pressed Enter) the space between the lines is defined by the Line Spacing value. When you type one line, then press Enter to create a new paragraph, the Spacing Before value determines how much space there is between the last line of the previous paragraph and the first line of the new paragraph. There's a big difference between letting word wrap create multiple lines and pressing Enter to create multiple paragraphs. The paragraph definition applies to all the lines in a given paragraph. When you press Shift+Enter, you're not creating a new paragraph. You're just forcing a new line in the same paragraph. In effect, you're overriding the automatic word wrap. But the space between the lines is still controlled by the Line Spacing value, because you're still in the same paragraph. You should click the Show/Hide button (the one with the backwards P) to show the nonprinting characters. You'll see that paragraphs end with a mark that looks like a backward P, but line breaks (Shift+Enter) look like a "left arrow with a tail." Finally, the paragraph settings you apply by clicking Format Paragraph only apply to the current paragraph. To affect the settings for all paragraphs, you have to work with styles. Notice the style name of the paragraph you're currently in. If you click Format Style, you'll see that same style selected and ready to examine or modify. If you click Modify Format Paragraph, you'll come to the same dialog box you saw when you clicked Format Paragraph. (The exact command path may be different for Word 2003 and 2007.) However, when you change the Spacing Before value for the style, you change the space before for ALL paragraphs in your document that use that style. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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