MICROSOFT WORD; Help! Spacing Is set to 1.0...?

Question

But still looks abit spaced out to me, Any suggestions

I want it

to look like

this

But

It ends up

looking like

this

Answer 1

It sounds like you are in Web style.  It happens to me all the time if I copy text from the web - very annoying.

Highlight the text and on the Formatting Toolbar, click on the down arrow of the Style box (to the left of the fonts).  The top option should be "Clear Formatting".  If you click on this it will reset the text back to your default settings and then you can change the font etc if it's not to your liking, but the extra spacing will have gone.

Answer 2

If each of those lines ends with an Enter (¶ character if you've turned them on), then you probably have some After spacing attached to that paragraph style.  Here's how to tell and fix it with versions of Word prior to Word 2007 (Vista):

1.     Click in one of those paragraphs.

2. Click on the Format->Styles and Formatting menu item.

3. In the bottom part of the sidebar that pops up, the style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it.

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

5. Select Modify from the list box.

6. Click the Format button and select Paragraph.

7. If there's any value other than zero in the Before and After text boxes, make it zero.

8. OK out of everything.

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

Now, if you want to carry this one step further and fix the style on the template your document is based on (probably Normal.dot, but not necessarily), do this:

1. Click the Tools->Organizer menu item.

2. In the left-hand list box, find and click on the style you changed.

3. Click the Copy button between the two list boxes.

4. Click OK.

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

That should do it.

Answer 3

You are set to 2.0. Hit Ctrl+1 to switch to 1.0 spacing.