2 lines between returns

Sometimes when you paste information from one document into another, the formatting doesn't match up. You may have a single space setting in your original document, but a double space setting in the portion you have pasted.

Check both the original text, and the pasted text to make sure both are formatted the same.

Once you have selected a piece of text in another document be careful with a paragraph character at the end. You could see it by clicking the show/hide paragraph and other hidden characters.

The solution might be to select the text, press SHIFT and while holding down SHIFT press once the left arrow. By this trick you will remove the paragraph character from your selection. Copy and paste as usual. This is faster than copy and paste special, non-formatted text.

You could also add a button, paste special where you still would have to choose non-formatted text.

The latter is only useful if you would select several paragraphs, because the paragraph character from the first paragraph(s) would still remain intact [containing all the formatting information].
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Check the line spacing. Click on Format/Paragraph. In the Spacing section, under line spacing, it should be single. Otherwise it is set to double or 1.5, it would appear everytime you are hitting the return key twice. Most probable cause is when youcopy, the source paragraph formatting is set to double or 1.5.

hope this helps.

The answers above are correct in their diagnosis and solution. A preventative option is to use Paste Special and select Unformatted Text when copying information from one document to another. The formatting properties from the 'other document' will, as a rule, not be carried into the intended document and will inherit the properties for the style in use at the point the information is being copied to.

Note of caution - this does not work for copying information in table and column as the requried format properties will not be carried into the intended document.