line spacing

[Daylily]

I just bought Office:mac 2008 last night. I'm trying to write a letter and started with my address, date, their address and salutation - you know - then went right into the first paragraph. It automatically made everything 1.5 or double line spacing except the paragraph. The paragraph is single line spacing. Everything else is not. Everytime I try to change the rest to single line spacing it indicates that they already are single spaced - but they aren't. How do I change it?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It's not actually double-spacing that is the problem. Word changed the
default to add more space between paragraphs, so that each paragraph
will be single-spaced, but between paragraphs, you get extra space.
Paragraphs are created every time you hit enter.

To change in just this document, select all, go to Format | Paragraph.
Look down to the find the Spacing: After field, and change 10 to 0.

To change this in all documents created from now on, change the Normal
style.

First, select Format | Style. Normal should be selected.

Click on Modify--make sure "add to template" is CHECKED. You'll see a
Format menu in the bottom of the dialog--select Paragraph from it, and
change the Spacing: After setting from 10 to 0.

 

[Daylily]

Thank you! That took care of it!