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change single space in word 2007
For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The
spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence). Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) |
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As far as I can tell MS Word hasn't changed the single spacing.
Are you sure that the line doesn't have spacing before or after it? You can check by going to the "Format" menu, click on "Paragraph", make sure the box that pops up is on the "Indents and Spacing" tab, then look under "Line Spacing". If there is a number in the "Before" or "After" boxes that could be adding spacing you don't want. Let me know if this helps. "Jeff" wrote: For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence). Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) |
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Also note that when you are using variable line spacing the actual
distance between baselines depends on the font and size. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Newslettergirl" wrote in message ... As far as I can tell MS Word hasn't changed the single spacing. Are you sure that the line doesn't have spacing before or after it? You can check by going to the "Format" menu, click on "Paragraph", make sure the box that pops up is on the "Indents and Spacing" tab, then look under "Line Spacing". If there is a number in the "Before" or "After" boxes that could be adding spacing you don't want. Let me know if this helps. "Jeff" wrote: For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence). Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) |
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Hi Jeff,
The default line spacing in Word 2007 is 1.15. The goal, along with the addtion of the Themes and FontSets was to increase readability of documents. Some background on the reasoning behind this is covered in this MS font team blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/archi...17/600507.aspx I suspect that this is one of those issues that will fall along the lines of whether or not there should be one or two spaces after a period in a sentence based on readability You can use the Word 2003 Quickstyle set from the Home Ribbon to set things to the 'old' g way. =============== "Jeff" wrote in message ... For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence). Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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change single space in word 2007-THE ANSWER
Hi,
Thanks to all who responded to my original question. Here is what I found, please see Microsoft article ArtcIe ID : 921174 Default line spacing and default paragraph spacing in Word 2007 differ from the default spacing in earlier versions of Word SYMPTOMS Article ID : 921174 When you work in a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document, you may notice that there is more space between lines of a paragraph and more space between paragraphs than in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. CAUSE This behavior maybe occurs because the default line spacing and the default paragraph spacing has been increased in Word 2007 to provide better readability. WORKAROUND To work around this behavior in Word 2007 so that the line spacing and paragraph spacing are the same as in earlier versions of Word, change the Style Set option. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Click the Home tab. 2. Click Change Styles in the Styles group, point to Style Set, and then dick the style set that you want to use. To change the line spacing and paragraph spacing to the default spacing in earlier versions of Word, dick Word 2003. 3. To set the style set as the default style set in Word 2007, click Change Styles in the Styles group, and then click Set as Default. "Jeff" wrote: For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence). Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) |
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