Microsoft Word Help

fireyfirenze

forgive me if this is a silly question, but...

I'm attempting to write my CV using Microsoft Word Starter 2010 (it was just what came with my laptop) and whenever I make a new line it puts 2 spaces in between, like this:

blah blah

blah blah

whereas I just want it to be like this:

blah blah
blah blah

I have highlighted the whole document and changed to 'line spacing 1' but it is still doing it. am I being daft or is there something I'm missing?

flashg67

on the Home tab, click 'no spacing' on the ribbon menu at the top?

tyllwyd

As well as changing to single line spacing, you need to check whether the paragraph style includes spacing before or after (if you bring up the paragraph menu, look at the spacing option and it should have boxes for before and after - both of these should be set to 0).

deed02392

Try pressing 'shift+enter'. This tells Word it's not a paragraph break. But you want to look at 'text formatting'. I'm not famliiar with this on Starter but you can define how you want paragraphs to look.

So presuming you're wanting a single line return because you want to do tabbed paragraphs - there should be the ability to set this up in formatting options, rather than 'hacking' it by fiddling with not-quite-right other options.