When pressing enter in Word 07 it drops two lines ?!

[Divardo]

When I press enter on my keyboard in word it drops two lines with a large space and to drop one line I am having to press shift enter. How do I get rid of this?

[PL_ Veteran]

Check to make sure Double spacing isn't enabled. You can see by right clicking the page, choosing Paragraph, and seeing the spacing option.

[spacer]

It spaces two lines because <Enter> inserts paragraph breaks in Word'07. If you hold <Shift> and then hit <Enter> it will insert the normal new-line that you're used to. Sorry, but I'm not sure how to turn it off. Just try looking over the options panel.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

This is not double spacing. This is ending a paragraph and starting a new one - hence the larger space.

Shift+enter is just a new line.

[PL_ Veteran]

Ah yes, I remember now - and if I'm not mistaken there is a box you can check in the Paragraphs dialogue box to turn this off :)

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

It's normal behaviour though, it might just be a good idea to get used to it - or you'd have to configure for all computers you work on.

[NateB1]

In the Paragraph group, click the line spacing button. At the bottom, there should be an option to "remove space after paragraph."

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Was just going to say this is standard, hasn't this been the case for the last few Word's?

[spenser.d]

If I understand what you're talking about - you can fix it by simply going to the 'Style' section under the Home ribbon and hit the style next to the default choice (default is labeled 'Normal', you want 'No Spacing').

-Spenser

[briangw]

The way I turn it off is highlight the area, right click and make sure you change the before and after spacing to 0. Then, if you want to, after saving the fille, erase the contents of the doc and save it as the Default template.