change single space in word 2007

[Guest]

For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The
spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space
setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence).
Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own
information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was
a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or
whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!)

 

[Guest]

As far as I can tell MS Word hasn't changed the single spacing.

Are you sure that the line doesn't have spacing before or after it? You can
check by going to the "Format" menu, click on "Paragraph", make sure the box
that pops up is on the "Indents and Spacing" tab, then look under "Line
Spacing". If there is a number in the "Before" or "After" boxes that could
be adding spacing you don't want. Let me know if this helps.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Also note that when you are using variable line spacing the actual
distance between baselines depends on the font and size.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

As far as I can tell MS Word hasn't changed the single spacing.

Are you sure that the line doesn't have spacing before or after it? You can
check by going to the "Format" menu, click on "Paragraph", make sure the box
that pops up is on the "Indents and Spacing" tab, then look under "Line
Spacing". If there is a number in the "Before" or "After" boxes that could
be adding spacing you don't want. Let me know if this helps.

crazy!)

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jeff,

The default line spacing in Word 2007 is 1.15. The goal, along with the addtion of the Themes and FontSets was to increase
readability of documents. Some background on the reasoning behind this is covered in this MS font team blog entry:
http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/archive/2006/05/17/600507.aspx

I suspect that this is one of those issues that will fall along the lines of whether or not there should be one or two spaces after
a period in a sentence based on readability

You can use the Word 2003 Quickstyle set from the Home Ribbon to set things to the 'old' <g> way.

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For some reason Microsoft decided to change the meaning of single space. The
spacing between lines is considerably more in the current single space
setting than it used to be (and in every other Word Processor in existence).
Is there any way to go back to real single space? (Just for my own
information, why would anybody think changing the meaning of single space was
a good idea? If you want more space between lines, just put in 1.5 or
whatever, why change the meaning of single space? It's just plain crazy!) <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Thanks to all who responded to my original question. Here is what I found,
please see Microsoft article ArtcIe ID : 921174

Default line spacing and default paragraph spacing in
Word 2007 differ from the default spacing in earlier
versions of Word
SYMPTOMS
Article ID : 921174
When you work in a Microsoft Office Word 2007
document, you may notice that there is more
space between lines of a paragraph and more space between paragraphs than in
earlier versions
of Microsoft Word.
CAUSE
This behavior maybe occurs because the default line spacing and the default
paragraph
spacing has been increased in Word 2007 to provide better readability.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior in Word 2007 so that the line spacing and
paragraph
spacing are the same as in earlier versions of Word, change the Style Set
option.
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click the Home tab.
2. Click Change Styles in the Styles group, point to Style Set, and then
dick the
style set that you want to use.
To change the line spacing and paragraph spacing to the default spacing in
earlier versions of Word, dick Word 2003.
3. To set the style set as the default style set in Word 2007, click Change
Styles in
the Styles group, and then click Set as Default.