Line Spacing Inconsistency

[Guest]

I am using Word 2003 and have authored several documents that start out with single line spacing and part-way through the document the line spacing appears to be 1.5 but shows up in formating as single space.

I have tried paragraph formating, but usually am not satisfied with the results. A lot of times, I end up copying the correctly spaced information, pasting it into a new document, and manually typing in the affected information in the new document. I delete the old, affected document.

Any suggestions on solving this problem?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Are the different parts of the document using different font sizes? If
this is the case, that's why the line spacing, although it is set to
"Single", looks different. You can get around this problem by
specifying fixed line spacing: First, select the text. Then, on the
Format menu, click Paragraph. Click the Indents and Spacing tab. Under
"Line Spacing", choose "Exactly" and specify the desired amount in
points. Some trial and error might be necessary to find the value that
looks best!

If you are using paragraph styles, you can of course modify these to
include the proper line spacing. For more information about styles,
please see:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

If you have been using styles, modifying its properties should
immediately reflect on the result of the text. If it doesn't, you can
use CTRL+SPACEBAR to remove font formatting (font size, font name,
text color, italic, bold, underline, etc.) not in style. And you can
use CTRL+Q to remove paragraph formatting (indents, line spacing,
space before, space after, numbering, bullets, etc.) not in style.

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Stefan Blom

I am using Word 2003 and have authored several documents that start

out with single line spacing and part-way through the document the
line spacing appears to be 1.5 but shows up in formating as single
space.

I have tried paragraph formating, but usually am not satisfied with

the results. A lot of times, I end up copying the correctly spaced
information, pasting it into a new document, and manually typing in
the affected information in the new document. I delete the old,
affected document.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Try the following macro. Put the cursor in the offending paragraph and run
the macro. It will reset all the paragraphs of that style to the underlying
paragraph style.

Sub Reset_Style()
Dim TargetStyle, CurrentStyle As String
Dim aParagraph As Variant
CurrentStyle = Selection.ParagraphFormat.Style
TargetStyle = InputBox("Style Name?", , CurrentStyle)
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each aParagraph In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
If aParagraph.Style = TargetStyle Then
aParagraph.Reset
aParagraph.Range.Font.Reset
End If
Next aParagraph
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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