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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.
That is the question asked five pages ago. Have you read the previous replies? If none of them provides an answer, then start a new thread.
I fixed it but not with the solutions I was reading about. Probably someone has already explained this but maybe this will help someone else with Windows 7, MS Office 2010 and Word double-space issue:
In plainspeak from one who does not utter a word of computerese:
Go to upper right of screen to 'Change Styles' (next to 'aA')
Then choose 'Paragraph Spacing' in the drop-down box
Next, under 'Built In', choose 'No Paragraph Space'.
Choose as default for all documents.
Who knew? I was looking for 'line spacing', and nothing worked, until I decided to try as a last resort - before grabbing pen and paper for an excruciating round of handwriting the many documents I need to work on - 'Paragraph spacing'.
Whew.