I seem to be working my way through the Office 2010 design team, as I have a similar gripe about Outlook 2010 and mail headers. I’d like to meet that guy face to face so I can kick his junk up into his throat. Specify the desired Line Spacing and Spacing Before/After. In the dialog box, click Format, and then click Paragraph. Locate the Normal style, right-click and choose Modify from the context menu. Somewhere at Microsoft there is a Product Manager that approved this jackassery. To change the defaults, do the following: In a new, blank document, click Format Styles and Formatting. I discovered later that if you want to fix this permanently, you need to set the paragraph spacing to “auto”, which then allows paragraph spacing to function correctly. Then this gem from a Microsoft MVP for Word: Try SHIFT+ENTER to create a new line rather than a new paragraph. So I’m reading 10 pages of comments with troubleshooting advice like I would give, and all to no avail. Then I find a user with the same problem (you mean there’s more than one of you?). So it should just be a simple matter of fixing the paragraph spacing right? Except the paragraph spacing is already set to 0px, and the line spacing is already set to single spaced. This happens because when you hit the ENTER key, Word creates a new paragraph, not just a new line. Use double-spacing throughout the entire paper.To add double-spacing in Microsoft Word, highlight all the text you want double-spaced. So some quick Google Fu, and I can now define why this is happening, but am having no luck figuring out how to fix it. Well this should be easy enough to fix I think. ![]() Select the text that you want to double-space. ![]() When I walked into her office, this is what I found: Now when you view your document, the text should be double spaced. For the latest versions of Microsoft Word, adding double spacing to your documents is quite easy. Select the paragraphs you want to change and follow the steps below. She also just had her Office version upgraded from 2003 to 2010 two days ago, so my natural inclination was that this was just a case of “stupid Office Ribbon!” You can use this when you want to add double spaces for only part of the document. Visit Insider’s Tech Reference library for more stories. In older versions of Word, including Word 2007-2010, you will need to go to the Styles section of the Home tab and in the Formatting menu click Double Space. So one of my users is printing an envelope (I didn’t even know that people still did this for single envelopes), and she tells me that her addresses are double spaced, and can’t get them to be single spaced. To double space in newer versions of Word, click on the Design tab and set your Paragraph Spacing to 2.0.
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