Paragraph spacing problem

[provlima]

I am having a frustrating problem in Word 10. I’m typing a manuscrip
and find that sometimes I cannot get paragraphs close together wit
standard spacing between them. There are pages where paragraphs migh
have 10 spaces between them, and I cannot get them closer no matter wha
I try.
Has anyone had this problem and know how to solve it?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Did you remember to change not only the line spacing (which determines the
spacing between the lines of a paragraph) but also the spacing before/after
(which determines the spacing added as you press Enter to create a new
paragraph)? In this case, it would seem you want zero spacing before/after.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Turn on "Show Non-printing Characters" (Ctril-Shift-8) and delete all
the extra paragraph marks between your paragraphs of text.