Why double space sometimes before & after Paragraph?

[Al Franz]

Often in Word I will have additional white space immediately above and below
a paragraph. Thus the first or last line will show a larger width then
other lines in the paragraph. If I go to Format Paragraph everything seems
normal such as single spacing and the fonts. What is causing this?

 

[Marin Kostov]

There is Spacing before and after the Paragraph. Check it and change it to
0.
Or, modify the Style and turn that spacing to 0.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Or better yet, learn to use the spacing before/after settings to properly
format your document. You might want to take a look at Rule 3 of "Beginner's
Guide to Professional Word Documents"
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119