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When typing in Microsoft Word Starter everything comes up double spaced. How to I change to get single space lines.
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You need to change the document defaults so that spacing before and after are both set to zero and so that the line spacing is Single. I believe this has been discussed earlier in this (long) thread.
And if you want it to always, from this point forward, to be the way new documents are created, after doing Doug's suggestion, click on the "Set as Default" button.
I don't have starter to check, but in full Word in the Home tab / Paragraph group an command called "Line and Paragraph Spacing" with a icon that consists of 4 horizontal lines with blue arrows pointing up and down on the left side and a downward pointing triangle on the right side.
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Click on the Dialog Launcher in the Paragraph section of the Home tab of the Ribbon, or on the Line and Paragraph Spacing button immediately above the "ph" in the word "Paragraph" in that section of the Ribbon.
The dialog launcher is the small arrow in the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group, but you can easily open the same dialog by right-clicking in any paragraph and choosing Paragraph.
Keep in mind that you must not only change the line spacing to Single but also remove the10 points Spacing After. If you want this to apply to new documents, then, when you click Set as Default, you must choose "New documents based on this template."
If all else fails, you can open the Normal template as a document and make the change there:
In Word, press Alt+F11; the Visual Basic Editor opens. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type
NormalTemplate.OpenAsDocument
and press Enter. Normal opens, but note that it may not be on top of all windows. You can close the Visual Basic Editor. Make your desired changes in the Normal file, and then save and close it. Note that the type of change you are making may not register as a change that dirties the file (look to see whether the Undo button is activated). If not press Spacebar, then Backspace before saving to make sure the template is actually saved.
I just purchased a new computer with Windows 7. Microsoft Office Starter 2010 was preinstalled.
It will not, however, single space per any of the recommendations previously given. There is no Dialog Launcher in the Paragraph section of the Home page of the Ribbon. I do have the line and paragraph spacing button abover the "ph". It opens and gives multiple choices for line spacing including "single", but it does not work. I have tried this 10-12 times and chosen "Set as Default" but the program still double spaces. There must be another solution to this problem. Would appreciate any help. The program is worthless in its present condition.