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Wordpad Question?

Feb 12, 2005 3:18AM PST

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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(NT) (NT) Try Format Paragraph. All zeros.
Feb 12, 2005 3:26AM PST
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Feb 12, 2005 7:17AM PST

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

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Double Spacing
Feb 12, 2005 10:39AM PST

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!
Many Thanks

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what causes it to begin with?
Jul 18, 2012 4:32AM PDT

>reply
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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
>. . .
>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

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???

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Try looking at paragraph spacing.
Jul 18, 2012 4:35AM PDT
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To set line spacing...
Feb 13, 2005 12:33PM PST

To Set single spacing press Ctrl+1.
To set double spacing press Ctrl+2.

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also Ctrl+5
Feb 13, 2005 5:23PM PST

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)

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Lot of good stuff at:
Feb 14, 2005 9:25AM PST
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Word? how about WordPad
Feb 14, 2005 11:23AM PST

and a few of those work for WordPad too. Happy

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Word wars
Feb 14, 2005 4:38PM PST

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.