[pchelpers] Re: MS Word 2007 - line spacing

Thank  you Scott.  Most of the  time  I  use  my  office  Word 2003.  I 
decided  to  write  an informal  note  to  my residential  
superintendent  rather  than  a  letter.  So  the  spacing  did not matter too 
much.now.  For  correspondence  I  had  to  find  this  information out.
 
Gerald`
--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: MS Word 2007 - line spacing
To: "Gerald Gollinger" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 10:51 PM

Hi Gerald,

Friday, October 31, 2008, 9:08:45 PM, you wrote:

GG> Right  now  my  software  is  not  usable  since  the 
default 
GG> is  double  spaced.  Does  anyone  know  how
GG> line  spacing  works?  Please  not  a  800  page  book.

See page 799.  I will quote the relevant section for your convenience:

    MS Word auto-wraps paragraphs, so it is not necessary to press ENTER
    at the end of a line.  Doing so creates a new paragraph.
    Paragraphs are separated by a blank line, by default.

    Spacing within and between paragraphs is controlled by the Line
    Spacing icon.  This is under Home, Paragraph, 2nd row, 5th icon.
    What you do is press Ctrl-A to select all of the text, then click
    that icon, then tinker with the options until the spacing is the
    way that you want it.

    In your case, you might want to use the "Remove Space After
    Paragraph" item.  You can also select the "Line Spacing
Options"
    item to see how the various manual settings work.

    An even easier way to do this is to use the "No spacing" style
    button on the same ribbon. Simply pointing at the button will show
    the result; you need to click to make it permanent.

    You should become familiar with the styles, since they allow you
    to easily and quickly reformat your entire document in a
    consistent way, and things like title styles are marked so that
    tables of contents can be created automatically by Word. Any line
    marked as a title will show up in the ToC. To create a ToC, go to
    References, Table of Contents.

I'm not sure what you're doing with your email; there appears to be a
chr(160) after every word. If your Word documents have the same
character in them, that might confuse Word, and the instructions above
may not work as described.

I did not even know about styles until I started using Word 2007; I
had to hunt around in Word 2003 before I found the Styles item.
That's one advantage of moving from an older version of Word (or
Excel, etc.) to 2007; some things that seemed minor before are now
more prominent.

-- 
Scott.



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