How do you reduce the space between lines when using Word 2007?

Question

I am typing something in Word 2007. The lines look double spaced and I want them tighter. I went to paragraph but there does not seem to be any way to reduce the size and single space is already selected.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Line spacing (single, double) pertain only to lines within a paragraph.  Spacing between paragraphs are controlled by the Before and After spacings in the Paragraph dialog box.

Since you've already checked out the intra-paragraph spacing and it looks normal, I have to ask, Are you pressing the Enter key at the end of every line?  If so, in addition to the probable fix below, I suggest you stop pressing Enter except at the end of the paragraph and let Word do the right word spacing.  In fact, that feature, known as word wrap, was one of the first features of true word processors.

Now to try to fix the spacing.

1.Click in an affected paragraph.

2.Click the Home tab on the Ribbon.

3.Click the arrow in the lower right corner of the Styles section.

4.The style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it.

5.Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.

6.Select Modify from the list box.

7.Click the Format button and select Paragraph.

8.In the Spacing section, make sure the Before and After combination boxes have zeros in them.  You might also make note of the Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style checkbox.

9.     Click OK.

10.     If you want this to carry forward to other documents based on the template this one is based on, click the radio button for New Documents Based On This Template.

11.Perform the adjustments you want in the indentation section.

12.OK out of everything.

All paragraphs in the document with that style should adjust themselves.

When you close your document, you may see a warning message asking if you want to save the changes to Normal.dotx. This is an anti-virus measure, intended to alert you that something has changed in Normal.dotx. In this case, you made the change, so you want to accept it.

That should do it.

Answer 2

The default line spacing with 2007 is 1.15, not single and spacing before and after paragraphs is I think set to 6. If you have text already you can highlight all, right button of mouse down to paragraph, and change line spacing and para spacing there but so that it is changed by default, best way is click on Home menu tab, then click on arrow to side of paragraph button to open paragraph properties box, change the line spacing and para spacing here and hit the default button.

Answer 3

On the ribbon entitled paragraph click on the lower right hand corner.

This will open up a menu of options concerning indentation and spacing

Under this menu you can change the spacing and indentation.  I believe the default is set to 1.15 spaces, and you can change it to one space.  

You can change the space in between paragraphs as well.  

Answer 4

In paragraph click on the line spacing button and then set the spacing after a line to 0

Answer 5

go to format; paragraph and beside the single space box is there a box with a drop down menu which says auto; 0pt, 2pt etc.

select 0pt and see if that will work.

Also, it will depend on the size font you are using and if you have capitals/bold mixed with normal size and unbold.

Answer 6

Yes, that's pretty simple.

Click on the "Format" tab and a window should open. Click on where "Line Spacing" is located and click "Single". If however you wish it to be tighter than that, or slightly looser, you can do your own custom version on the "Before" and "After field located within the window.

Once that's done, click "OK". A precaution to take is that if you want the whole document to conform to the line settings, ensure that its highlighted first before continuing.  

Answer 7

This happened to me.

After sometime messing around with microsoft word 2007

I found out that you should click on 'page layout' tab

then there should be a section/box called 'paragrah'

In that there should be another section called 'spacing'

Change the spacing after to 0pt

there you go

I hoped this helps you

i have given a screenshot

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