copy paste, paragraph breaks are not there

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Margo1

I’m very new to Office 2007, think I may go back to XP but that has nothing
to do with my question.
When I create a document it looks fine with a blank line where it’s supposed
to be when I hit enter to go to a new paragraph. If I do a copy paste the
blank lines disappear. By that I mean copy from the word document to Agent,
or Yahoo my mail clients. Sometimes I write my email messages in word, well
use to then do a copy/paste. I tried this both ways, from the menu bar at the
top, the ctrl/c ctrl/v
I’m using Vista BTA
 
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Beth Melton

The "blank lines" you are seeing are actually formatted space. This is a new
Default for Word 2007. Using formatted space instead of multiple paragraph
marks (which you likely used in the past) produces better results for your
Word documents when you use other functions, such as Sorting, copy/paste
(you only have to worry about the paragraph or paragraphs - not the "empty
lines"), the pagination options work better (keeping text together on the
same page), and so on.

But, it sounds like your Yahoo and Agent mail clients don't support
formatted space between paragraphs. What you need to do is add the extra
"blank line" yourself by pressing Enter a second time. If you want the text
to look like it will when you copy/paste it, select the text and then on the
Home tab, in the Quick Styles galley, click No Spacing.

If you prefer the old behavior you can modify the defaults. I personally
don't recommend this for reasons I previously provided, but here are the
steps you need to take: on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the
dialog launcher (little arrow in the corner), modify your spacing options
and then click Default at the bottom of the dialog box.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Microsoft Office MVP

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Margo1

Thanks for the prompt reply. I will leave it the way it is. I don't really
compose that many emails in word. I just wanted to make sure everything was
ok. I turned on markers and could see them and didn't understand why the
blank line wasn't going.
Margo
 
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