Word 2008: line spacing

fleurya · Feb 5, 2008

I recently got Office 2008 and everything looks pretty good so far. One problem I'm having is with line spacing. Even though I have line spacing set to default (single space) it looks like it's 1.5 space. It's really annoying since it spaces everything out more and takes up more room. Plus, I don't think my profs are going to accept it if they want single space for a paper.

Does anyone know why this is and how to get it back to normal?

fleurya · Feb 5, 2008

ARG! Never mind. I figured out that they have paragraph spacing set to a default of 10pt. I don't know why they put these ridiculous default setting on, like the 1.25 right and left margins. It's so annoying because I have to go through and reset them every time I start a new document.

billsmith568 · Feb 6, 2008

You can set the default for the margins in Format-document.

You can set the spacing for paragraphs for the normal template that opens when you open a new document. The method is described at the Microsoft site for Office:mac 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.m...-US&usid=3579f164-32c0-40ae-8520-218aa58c961e

Hope this helps.

fleurya · Feb 6, 2008

billsmith568 said:
You can set the default for the margins in Format-document.

You can set the spacing for paragraphs for the normal template that opens when you open a new document. The method is described at the Microsoft site for Office:mac 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.m...-US&usid=3579f164-32c0-40ae-8520-218aa58c961e

Hope this helps.

Awesome!! Thanks for the info, and great first post.

Welcome to the forums!!

Kash · Feb 6, 2008

billsmith568 said:
You can set the default for the margins in Format-document.

You can set the spacing for paragraphs for the normal template that opens when you open a new document. The method is described at the Microsoft site for Office:mac 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.m...-US&usid=3579f164-32c0-40ae-8520-218aa58c961e

Hope this helps.

That makes my life SO much easier. Great tip!!

dctocali · Feb 20, 2008

what are the original settings supposed to be if not 10 pt? I have been messing around with it, but I can't figure it out. Please help.
Thanks

Neo · Feb 20, 2008

10 pt adds 10 points of space with each hard return. (?!)
0 (zero) pt is more conventional.