I'm sure this must be a simple procedure, but I cannot find the answer.
Can someone please advise me as to how to turn off double spacing in Wordpad.
The help section has no reference to this.
Using Windows XP Pro.
Many Thanks
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I'm sure this must be a simple procedure, but I cannot find the answer.
Can someone please advise me as to how to turn off double spacing in Wordpad.
The help section has no reference to this.
Using Windows XP Pro.
Many Thanks
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I'm embarassed to admit that I cannot find a solution to your problem. My wordpad runs in single spacing, and I cannot find the option to double space it.
My only suggestion to you, is to press shift-enter at the end of each line. It should bring you down a single line rather than two.
I'm terribly sorry I couldn't find the option.
-AInTeL
Please don't be embarrassed. It seems that double spacing isn't an option in Wordpad.
I had copied and pasted some text from a website to Wordpad. It seems that Wordpad recognized that it was double spaced and responded accordingly.
When I open a new document it reverts to single spacing.
Oh the many mysteries of Windows!
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>by AInTeL - 2/12/05 3:17 PM
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>In Reply to: (NT) (NT) Try Format Paragraph. All zeros. by R. Proffitt
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>My only suggestion to you, is to press shift-enter at the end
>of each line. It should bring you down a single line rather than
>two.
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>I'm terribly sorry I couldn't find the option.
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>-AInTeL
My Wordpad starts double spacing for no reason I've been able to figure out. Often in the middle of a document it just all of a sudden starts to double space every time I hit the Enter key. It SUX! And worst of all is that I can't get it to stop. I tried Ctrl+1 and that didn't solve the problem, but holding shift and hitting Enter does cause it to single space. It still sux, and WHY does it start double spacing to begin with???
To Set single spacing press Ctrl+1.
To set double spacing press Ctrl+2.
Press Ctrl+5 to set the line spacing to 1.5 lines.
By the way, you can selectively change the line spacing from one line to the next, or highlight multiple lines and press the Ctrl+ (1, 2, or 5) and change all the selected lines.
Now those are useful tips, and even knowing it I searched through the WordPad Help file, on this WinXP Pro, and I could NOT find it mentioned anywhere.
Thank you Microsoft! (grrrrr)
MS Word 2000 Tips and Tricks
http://www.tridenttech.edu/fscc/class/word_tips.htm
I think much of it applies to other Word versions too.
Microsoft Wordpad programs are simply scaled-down free versions of the Mocrosoft Word word processor. Some features cross-over while some do not. In either case the user is left to search the help files or the Net. And it's often necessary to conduct trial and error as the help files or instructions obviousely leave much to be desired.
If you know of a good tutorial for the various versions of Wordpad or Word I'm sure many fellow boarders including myself would appreciate a heads-up.