single line spacing

Be a devil, "CeruleanSins11"! It's 20+ years since people stopped using
typewriters and it's time to stop emulating some of their crudities that end
up taking up so much time and making documents look like, well, typewriting.

Consistent with what John has been saying: consider the advantages of being
able to creep paragraphs closer together to get them all on the one page
when they are just that tiny bit too much for the page (or push them further
apart). Or having a heading glue itself to the paragraph below it, so you
don't have to put in a manual page break above a heading that's on the
bottom line of the page.

There are a dozen other advantages of using Word's styles as they were
designed: take a look at 'Some advantages of using styles' on page 91 of
some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html). You'll find
Appendix A: The main ³minimum maintenance² features of my documents, on page
164, useful too.

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.
Also: in Word 2008, which I don't use yet, some of this information be
accessible through a different interface, but that should only be a minor
inconvenience.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
====================================================



On 11/6/08 6:47 PM, in article C475C748.15ECA%john@mcghie.name, "John
McGhie" wrote:

> OK, you have proved that the problem is "Space after" on your styles, and
> you have not "fixed" it, you have hidden it.
>
> Not a problem if you don't send documents anywhere else, or get documents
> from anywhere else.
>
> If you do, you need to modify the styles you use to have the spacing that
> you like. And you need to save those changes to your Normal template. You
> should undo the setting you have just made while you do that, so you can see
> what you are doing.
>
> See here: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Word2008Issues.html#DoubleSpacing
>
> Note: If you use Styles, Normal style is not the only one potentially
> affected. In a default template, ALL styles inherit their settings from
> Normal style, so usually changing Normal style fixes it. However, if you
> have customised your styles (as you should!) then you may have to update
> several of them to set the Space After property to what you want.
>
> Similarly, if you use templates, Normal Template is not the only template
> that can be affected.
>
> But for most folks, the critical thing is to check the "Add to template"
> checkbox so your changes are written back to the template. Otherwise, you
> have to change every document you create.
>
> The fix only affects NEW documents. You have to change existing documents
> individually.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> On 11/06/08 9:57 AM, in article ee8c915.30.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
> "CeruleanSins11@officeformac.com" wrote:
>
>> I actually did what the first respondent stated in her answer, but this still
>> didn't solve my problem. The only thing that finally made it work was
>> checking
>> the box for not adding space in between like paragraphs. That fixed the
>> "problem" for me.
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Hi Cerulean Sins:

Ignore this Philistine!!!

I am sure you are above such disgusting behaviour as " creep paragraphs
closer together to get them all on the one page when they are just that tiny
bit too much for the page (or push them further apart)"

I mean, there are some sins that it's just not nice to talk about, right?

Mr. Huggan, this is a Family Newspaper, we prefer not to see such wanton
displays in here, thank you!!

Unless I do them, of course. Then it's all right...

Cheers


On 12/06/08 9:09 AM, in article
C4769F53.38F85%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au, "Clive Huggan"
wrote:

> Be a devil, "CeruleanSins11"! It's 20+ years since people stopped using
> typewriters and it's time to stop emulating some of their crudities that end
> up taking up so much time and making documents look like, well, typewriting.
>
> Consistent with what John has been saying: consider the advantages of being
> able to creep paragraphs closer together to get them all on the one page
> when they are just that tiny bit too much for the page (or push them further
> apart). Or having a heading glue itself to the paragraph below it, so you
> don't have to put in a manual page break above a heading that's on the
> bottom line of the page.
>
> There are a dozen other advantages of using Word's styles as they were
> designed: take a look at 'Some advantages of using styles' on page 91 of
> some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
> Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
> (http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html). You'll find
> Appendix A: The main ³minimum maintenance² features of my documents, on page
> 164, useful too.
>
> [Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
> most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
> read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
> front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
> some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.
> Also: in Word 2008, which I don't use yet, some of this information be
> accessible through a different interface, but that should only be a minor
> inconvenience.]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Clive Huggan
> Canberra, Australia
> (My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
> follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
> ====================================================
>
>
>
> On 11/6/08 6:47 PM, in article C475C748.15ECA%john@mcghie.name, "John
> McGhie" wrote:
>
>> OK, you have proved that the problem is "Space after" on your styles, and
>> you have not "fixed" it, you have hidden it.
>>
>> Not a problem if you don't send documents anywhere else, or get documents
>> from anywhere else.
>>
>> If you do, you need to modify the styles you use to have the spacing that
>> you like. And you need to save those changes to your Normal template. You
>> should undo the setting you have just made while you do that, so you can see
>> what you are doing.
>>
>> See here: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Word2008Issues.html#DoubleSpacing
>>
>> Note: If you use Styles, Normal style is not the only one potentially
>> affected. In a default template, ALL styles inherit their settings from
>> Normal style, so usually changing Normal style fixes it. However, if you
>> have customised your styles (as you should!) then you may have to update
>> several of them to set the Space After property to what you want.
>>
>> Similarly, if you use templates, Normal Template is not the only template
>> that can be affected.
>>
>> But for most folks, the critical thing is to check the "Add to template"
>> checkbox so your changes are written back to the template. Otherwise, you
>> have to change every document you create.
>>
>> The fix only affects NEW documents. You have to change existing documents
>> individually.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>>
>> On 11/06/08 9:57 AM, in article ee8c915.30.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
>> "CeruleanSins11@officeformac.com" wrote:
>>
>>> I actually did what the first respondent stated in her answer, but this
>>> still
>>> didn't solve my problem. The only thing that finally made it work was
>>> checking
>>> the box for not adding space in between like paragraphs. That fixed the
>>> "problem" for me.
>
>
>

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