Setting default line spacing in Wordpad

What a stupid design, so very limiting.  Too bad this cant cater to the customer and not to their specific limited mentality.  I don't like the font.  I like wordpad and I like the font "rod" but oh well.  so like a dictatorship.  tell me why?  ty

Why would you force me to format my document linespacing with extra space between the lines? It is very disruptive. I just want my document with simple 1.0 single line spacing.

I found a solution that works pretty well for me.  It involves starting a pre-formatted (i.e.: one-line spacing) WordPad document, from a batch file.  Details follow:

I created a document in WordPad, RTF_template.rtf, with the spacing and font I desire.

The batch file looks for this file in my Documents directory and copies it to "NewRTF.rtf" which then opens in WordPad.

I write my document, saving occassionally during my writing, as usual, and at the end before I close.

I close the document and the batch file copies "NewRTF.rtf" to a document with the current O/S time.  Your O/S may ask you whether the save operation involves a "file" or "directory".  Respond "f" for file.  You will find your file in your Documents directory named with the O/S current time when the file was copied and saved.  You can rename it to whatever you want.  (The reason for the second copy operation is because the next time you use the batch file the "NewRTF.rtf" diskfile will be overwritten by the "RTF_template.rtf" diskfile again.)

The batch file code follows.  You can cut and paste it into NotePad and save it to your computer if you wish to use it.  Be sure to eliminate any word wrapping that the constraints of this blog may bring over to NotePad.  (Shouldn't but you never know.)

rem BEGIN******************************************************BEGIN

@echo off

mode con: cols=120 lines=50

goto BYPASS

rem ******************************************************

rem | diskfile: WordPad.bat

rem | purpose: Open WordPad with a pre-configured template to avoid default line spacing irritations

rem | version: 1.00

rem | date   : 06/15/2015

rem | author : Larry White

rem *****************************************************

rem | 1.00  (06/15/2015)

rem ******************************************************

rem | 1.01  (07/02/2015) Added xcopy routine to copy template to new rtf diskfile

rem ******************************************************

:BYPASS

rem DIRECT PROGRAM TO HELP USER

if (%1) == (?)  goto HELP

if (%1) == (/?) goto HELP

if (%1) == (/H) goto HELP

if (%1) == (/h) goto HELP

if (%1) == (H) goto HELP

if (%1) == (h) goto HELP

rem SET ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: RTF Template Path

rem ...

   set WORDPAD_TEMPLATE=c:\users\whitelr\Documents\RTF_template.rtf

   set NEW_RTF=c:\users\whitelr\Documents\NewRTF.rtf

   set NEW_FILE=c:\users\whitelr\Documents%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%.rtf

rem SEE IF THE TEMPLATE DISKFILE EXISTS

rem ...

   if not exist %WORDPAD_TEMPLATE% goto NO_TEMPLATE

rem COMMAND LINE TO COPY TEMPLATE TO A NEW DISKFILE AND OPEN NEW FILE

rem ...

   xcopy %WORDPAD_TEMPLATE% %NEW_RTF% /Q /Y

   write %NEW_RTF%

   cls

   echo Continue batch file after closing WordPad

   pause

goto END

:HELP

   cls

   echo .

   echo .

   echo This batch file copies a template rtf to "NewRTF.rtf".  This avoids 

   echo having to deal with the default double line-spacing.

   echo .

   echo No replaceable parameters are required.

   echo.

   pause

goto END

:NO_TEMPLATE

   rem ADVISE USER THAT THE TEMPLATE FILE WASN'T FOUND

   cls

   echo .

   echo .

   echo .

   echo The %WORDPAD_TEMPLATE% diskfile was not found

   echo .

   echo .

   pause

goto END

:END

c:

cd\

   xcopy %NEW_RTF% %NEW_FILE% /Q /Y

   echo The document has been saved as %NEW_FILE%

   pause

exit

rem END******************************************************END