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How to remove the spacing between paragraphs

Typing SHIFT-ENTER instead of ENTER will prevent that extra space from occurring. If you want to do that every time...

Shift + enter suppresses a new bullet or a new number in lists until the next 'enter' when the bullets and numbering continue from where they left off.

Highlight the paragraph, right click, and select "Paragraph...". In the Paragraph window that then opens, you can set a number of different parameters!

I like one page letters. I try to say what I need to in a concise manner and then fit it to one page. If the letter is a bit long I change the font assigned between paragraphs from, say, 10 point to, say, 5 point.

On my computer, the show q (well, that paragraph marker) is active all the time. I simply need to catch double spaces, 15 empty paragraphs instead of a "new page", tabs and new lines instead of indentation etc.

Thank you yet again Susan for your discussion. As a touch typist of many, many years, Enter Enter is a habit very hard to break, but I'm getting over it. I have used Ctrl + O on occasions, and that works well. But, I changed my Normal style in 2007 and made the spacing after a paragraph 12 pt which is the equivalent of pressing Enter twice. The default 10 pt did not create quite enough space for me, but maybe that's an "age" thing. I must admit to playing with the line spacing as well as the 1.15 is too much, and I made it 1.1 which I have used for many years in documentation because I felt the extra white space between lines made easier reading. Single line spacing is based on the old typewriter days of 6 lines per inch, and the text can sometimes be difficult to read, particulary if the lines have a lot of ascenders and descenders making the text even more dense.

I still use Enter Enter too if I'm not paying attention!