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By: Getting Rid of That “Extra Space” You Get In Word:Mac 2008

Getting Rid of That “Extra Space” You Get In Word:Mac 2008 — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:29:26 +0000

[...] was reading my friend’s blog, and he had a post about a setting Microsoft put on Word 2008 that adds a space of 10 pts after each paragraph by [...]

By: Karl Bastian

Karl Bastian — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:50:19 +0000

Here are henry’s instructions, they are SOOOO Miscrosoft lame: (not Henry, all you have to do to do this simple thing)

I was reading my friend’s blog, and he had a post about a setting Microsoft put on Word 2008 that adds a space of 10 pts after each paragraph by default. Personally, I agree that this is a stupid default setting… unless someone can tell me the thinking behind it so I understand why. Well, my friend was asking for help, so I Googled “get rid of space in Word Mac 2008″ and one of the sites gave a solution (and it worked for me). I thought I’d share it here for anyone who might be miffed by the default setting and wants to fix it. These instructions are for Mac. I don’t know if they did the same thing to the PC version. If so, the solution probably is similar.

Here are the steps to change that setting:

1. Open Word.
2. Go to Format » Styles…
3. Highlight Normal in the Styles selection window, then press Modify.
4. In the new window that opens, check the Add to Template box (lower left).
5. Now choose Paragraph from the pop-up menu in the lower left corner of that same window.
6. In the new window, change the After setting to 0.
7. Click OK twice to close windows, then press Apply in the main Style window.
8. Quit Word and re-open.

By: Todd Huff

Todd Huff — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:51:56 +0000

Ok, I have become my church offices “help desk” and usually spend a significant amount of time trying to figure stuff like this out.

I think this should help you… (it’s how we did it on the windows version), so I am not sure if the mac version is the same)

On the home tab/ribbon there is a group marked paragraph. Mine is like the third group over where the bullets, numbering, and justification stuff is. If you look closely where the “Paragraph” title is for that group on the right hand side, in the corner, there is a little arrow. Click on that and you should get a similiar window to what you have in your screen shot, but it should also have a default button on it too at the bottom.

Make sure the before and after in the SPACING section is set to 0 pt. Set it however you want and then click on the default button and it should ask if you are sure you want to make that the default.

Again – this is how I did it on the Windows version so I am not entirely sure it’s the same on the Apple or not, but maybe it helps out a little….?

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:15 +0000

every one just needs to check out openoffice.org….

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:04:56 +0000

No prob. Gotta love how intuitive search engines are nowadays. I remember having to deal with keywords and boolean searches… blech!

By: kidologist

kidologist — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:58:53 +0000

I updated the post above, but here is the link to Henry’s solution: (THANKS!)
http://elementalcm.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/helpful-ms-word-for-mac-hint/

By: Helpful MS Word for Mac Hint « Elemental Children’s Ministry

Helpful MS Word for Mac Hint « Elemental Children’s Ministry — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:47:37 +0000

[...] Helpful MS Word for Mac Hint May 15, 2008 I was reading my friend’s blog, and he had a post about a setting Microsoft put on Word 2008 that adds a space of 10 pts after each paragraph by [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:41 +0000

At the top of the word docs in the tool bar there is a section listed styles. I just click “No Spacing” every time I open a word doc. It’s become habit for me.

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:38:25 +0000

I was miffed with that change, too. Googling the problem gave me this —>http://tinyurl.com/6xttdj

It fixed the stupid setting.

By: kidologist

kidologist — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:44:48 +0000

I can’t find where to save that? i search the hard drive for default normal.dot and came up with nothing? Im getting closer! help!

By: kidologist

kidologist — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:42:05 +0000

thanks, never heard of that, I will try that! i just downloaded open office this week… very intrigued with that!

By: tom

tom — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:44:51 +0000

have you tried making the changes and then saving as a new “default normal.dot template? i moved to a mac a year ago and have yet to install word. i’ve been using open office and pages. move work very nicely. blessings, t