Line spacing is expanded when everything set to single/zero

[BelD@UWA]

I have been trawling through the discussion threads for... prob hours and
have not found anything close to what I am excperiencing.

I have a Word document, created by someone in a different country, where the
spacing between lines, not just paragraphs, is enlarged. More than likely the
doc was created in Word 2003 or less, I am using 2007, but retaining the
97-2003 compatibility with the file. Here is what I have checked as a cause
to the super spacing:

The Page Layout is set to Top;
Line spacing is set to single;
'Don't use HTML paragraph auto spacing' is unticked;
Spacing before and after are set to 0pts (for this section of text).

I have copied the text into Notepad to remove any formatting codes, copied
that, and pasted it back into the word doc, but it retains its super spacing.
I have copied it from Notepad and pasted it into a new Word doc with 0pt
spacing before and after and it behaves as it should.

They reason why I haven't done that for the doc yet is because this super
spacing is affecting all of the styles active within the document. And if I
can get this worked out rather than do a quick fix of pasting it into a new
document, I'll be happier.

I have also tried reimporting the styles from the global template doc, but
it hasn't fixed the issue.

Has anyone else come across this before?

 

[Arbab]

1. Press Ctrl+A to select all text in documents or select specific para you
want to change into normal format

2 .Then press Ctrl+Shift+N

Your problem will be sovled
if not so please reply
Arbab

 

[grammatim]

"Single" line spacing is determined by the font in the paragraph.
Maybe you're using a font that happens to have long ascenders and
descenders, or a lot of empty space above and/or below the letters. If
you want to control the line spacing yourself, use "Exactly" instead
of "Single," and experiment with different values till you find the
one that looks best.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What language is applied to the document? What font is being used? Grammatim
will know more about this than I, but some languages use a "grid" that
results in larger spacing.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[grammatim]

Funny you should mention that ... I've just been doing the Tibetan
chapter in my book, and the automatic font when you're in Vista's
Tibetan keyboard -- Microsoft Himalaya -- automatically comes in at 17
pt. within 12 pt. text, and the spacing (when set to "Single")
increases below any line that has Tibetan in it. (You can get as many
as 5 letters in a single stack -- the main one on the line, one above,
and three below.)

But when you type in, say, Arabic, it doesn't automatically change the
size so it visually matches. 12 pt. Arabic is really too small to read
-- because some letters have tall ascenders and some have low
descenders, and then there are some marks that can go even above and
below the extenders. You need at least 18 pt. Arabic, and then
adjacent lines can interfere even with Single spacing selected.

 

[BelD@UWA]

Hi guys,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Arbab, I tried Ctrl+Shift+N which removed all styles formatting, but the
lines remained expanded.
Suzanne and grammatim, The language is set to English (Australia), and the
font is Times New Roman. I have tried setting the line spacing to Exactly,
but it clips the descenders even though it becomes the correct line spacing.
Is there anything else that you think it could be?

 

[grammatim]

It can happen that the descenders are clipped on screen but print ok.

But you don't want, say, 12/12 (no leading). That could work for
Garamond, but not Times.