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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.
You have to search the web. There are a number of free resources online. The trick is finding them. Here are links to some resources I've found online. A key point to remember is that there are not any really significant changes to BASIC functionality going back as far a 2003 (and even a bit earlier). So if you find a course or manual for an earlier version, the concepts very likely still apply. The only thing that may have changed is where the commands are hidden. 2010 and 2013 can use the MS Labs "Search" tool to find most commands, and 2016 has the built in "tell me" feature (an unfortunately dumbed down version of the search command tool).
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/microsoft-word-online.html - free online tutorials, looks fairly extensive
http://www.microsofttraining.net/microsoft-training-manuals.php - download free training manuals
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-scenario-based-training-af07cb6b-980d-4f33-8599-322582767408?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US - Office 365/2013 Business focused tutorials
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/office2010 - Free Office 2010 Training
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/topics/microsoft-word.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj871004%28v=office.16%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 - MS "quick start guides" and "What's new" - short overviews
https://education.microsoft.com/Start/LanguageSelect?ReturnUrl=%2fgettrained%3f - MS educator site has lots of learning materials
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-Training-Center-b8f02f81-ec85-4493-a39b-4c48e6bc4bfb?ms.officeurl=training&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US - MS Training Center, basic learning tutorials
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22781 - **MS Learning Essentials,**is old resource, but you may find some useful stuff in it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/default.aspx - MS Learning site
https://mva.microsoft.com/product-training/office-365#!index=3&lang=1033 - MS Virtual Training Center - courses for IT Pros, you may find one or two useful
https://mva.microsoft.com/training-topics/imagine-educator-resources#!lang=1033 - MS Virtual Training Center - Educator Resources
https://blogs.office.com/2013/03/19/free-office-webinars-every-tuesday-watch-videos-anytime/?inf\_contact\_key=afeb69c9209c5a55c4cb63625353f5b5e7620ec00602e748ad2a1750e0f637ae - 15 minute webinars on various subjects
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPr7gfUMmKyE22-YpbgcDfr2SXEO7-qX - Sway tutorials (new online approximation of PPT, pretty neat)
Also take a look at this other question, I have been posting various training links. You may find a few more useful links there
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.
These were wonderful directions. But I wish I could find a free manual for this app so I wouldn't have to continue asking questions. Thank you for your help.