William Chrisant

Stop Word 2007 from adding space between lines (Download Squad)

Feb 12th 2008 3:56PM I've had the misfortune of downloading the latest version of Word 2007 (regrettably to correct another uncorrectable problem). The line spacing has now changed to 1.5 spacing & the return key renders a double space. That's dumb by & of itself, but what's really annoying is that the default can't be changed (at least on my computer). The typical Google search is clogged with repetitive & often useless back-patting from Microsoft’s many employees. Beyond all of that drivel, I've tried:
1. going to Home "Change Styles" & changing to Word 2003 as default.
2. going to "Page Layout" & tried to change the "Spacing" default. &
3. going to Page Layout's dialogue box, then to "Spacing," default
4. going to Home then “Spacing” then “Space after Paragraph” then default
All of these fix the spacing for the open document, but despite checking "Change to Default" they never hold over to the next document opened.
Relative to the inconsistencies amongst other computers see http://www.cedarville.edu/help/Change+Word+2007+Default+Spacing which notes: "There have been a few cases on campus where the spacing defaults will not change permanently and the line spacing has returned to the system default of 1.5 when a new document is opened."