Paragraph Space in Word 2007?

Question

I have Office 2007. It happens to be that Microsoft thought that by increasing the space between paragraphs their stuff would look better. Well, it does a little, but not for my 'serious docs'.

I have a job to deliver and I still can't find how to decrease the space between lines and paragraphs. I want it to be like it was on Word 97, with almost no space between lines. Do you know the way to do it?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

I'm not sure how different 97 is from 2003, but you can get your Word 2007 doc to look like a Word 2003 doc. Here is the Microsoft Word 2007 page on how to "Make my Word 2007 document look like a Word 2003 document":

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102310281033.aspx?pid=CH100970231033

Answer 2

Close Word.
Search for normal.dot on your PC.
When you find it, right-click and choose Open.
Hit Ctrl+A.
Format-->Paragraph (not sure in 2007) and change the space before/after paragraph to ZERO.
Save the file.
Close it.
Close Word.
Restart Word and hopefully this will have done what you want. It would in older versions. :)

Answer 3

if its doubble spaced then you definately in basic terms press enter as quickly as after each and each paragraph not two times like this: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx new paragraph xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx