Why is it still Double Spacing?

Anonymous
2012-02-26T23:44:36+00:00

Original Title: WHY IT IS STILL DOUBLE SPACING?

I have been so ripped off.

 Give me word 2003 anyday.

 I paid for this. Then I had a nightmare getting it activated, it would not accept the key. But that was not what was the worst: It was getting to find help. I called the activation number, who transferred me to customer service, who had little girls who did not know what to do and wasted my time, only to transfer me back to the activation team and so on and so on for a good three hours one day.

 I was ready to scream. Just transfer me right to tech. The tech took care of that in less than five minutes.

Okay, so all should be okay, right?

 No IT IS NOT.

 An earlier tech made it so that my default in all my new word documents would be single space. I'm old school Nobody double spaces that's ridiciulous. I am writing a letter.

 Did it single space? No.

 I can't even figure out how to get it to stay in single space. I can find it, I can move it to single space. But the document won't do it.

 This is the worst expenditure of money. I want my money back. Uninstall this. I want to try that free software that is put out by some company I don't care but I'm happy to try it I'll be it is wonderful in its simplicity.

 Then I paid almost the same amount of money for outlook express. THAT was a mistake. I don't see how they send anythign or get anythign in fast, as when I click send/receive. .I just think it is sluggish, not nearly as clean, neat and breezy as the outlook that came with my old notebook.

 I have to end up calling tech suapport because I'm not going through any more irritation. This time I'm just asking to be transferred there. I have until April on this. I wish though I could go back in time and just NEVER buy it.

 I had upgraded once to IE 8 and kept getting this "corrupt file" message. It is like, theses folks make things deliberately  more complex so they can charge more money but in so doing, they are causing so many problems with their product people are getting disgusted.

 Again I go to start that letter and my train of thought is disrupted. Thanks a lot microsoft for wasting my time jacking me around on the phone when I should have received good service from the first call and been sent to tech, and thanks a lot for creating a chaotic software that is interrupting.

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-02-27T10:13:07+00:00

I gather that in the midst of your ranting, you are saying that you have not found out how to set the line spacing to single and make it stay that way.

Here is how to do it:

  1. On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Paragraph section, click on the Line and Paragraph spacing button (to the left of the paint can) and select Line Spacing Options.
  2. In the Paragraph dialog that appears set the Line spacing to Single and set the Spacing Before or After to the value that you want for the spacing between paragraphs (I would recommend 12pts after).
  3. After making the above selections, click on the Set as Default button and when a dialog box appears that gives you the option to make the setting for "This document only?" or "All documents based on the Normal.dotm template?, select the latter and then click on OK.
  4. If when you quit Word you are asked if you want to save the Normal.dotm template, take the affirmative action.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them here, but please make the question as clear as possible and refrain from the rants, as the people that help you here are your fellow Word users and not employees of Microsoft.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-19T00:57:48+00:00

    Wow! I can't wait to see if this is true! My generation thinks ENTERis the equivalent of the RETURN lever on a typewriter.

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  2. Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-07-17T21:20:37+00:00

    I too have same problem with Office 2010.  Have gone through several forums in attempt to resolve double-spacing issue, non appear to work. 

    You haven't told us what you have tried, exactly. You can change the document defaults in the Manage Styles dialog box. Getting to that dialog box is unnecessarily convoluted, but here's how to do it: In a new, blank document, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S which is the default shortcut to display the Styles pane. Click the Manage Styles icon at the bottom. On the Set Defaults tab, make sure that Line Spacing is "Single" and that Spacing Before and Spacing After are both set to zero. Select "New documents based on this template" and click OK.

    The changed settings apply to new, blank documents that you create (not to old documents which must be dealt with one by one). If it doesn't work, an add-in is preventing you from saving the Normal template properly, and that can be worked around by opening the Normal template manually and changing the defaults directly in the template.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-17T20:16:00+00:00

    I too have same problem with Office 2010.  Have gone through several forums in attempt to resolve double-spacing issue, non appear to work.  Work around install Wordperfect, set it to associate with .doc and docx.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-06-03T22:50:34+00:00

    Send me a document, referencing this thread in the covering email message and I will investigate the issue.

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