[Trainer-talk] Word 2010 question

[Barbara Johnson]

The student may be having a problem I'm having and can't solve permanently.
Word 2010 assumes that if you put in a hard return, you must want a
paragraph break.  This spreads an address or a recipe out on the page.  JAWS
accurately reports that you have the spacing set at single, but the program
keeps inserting the extra spaces.  You learn about it when you print, and a
document that should take one page takes two or three.  The fastest way I've
found to fix it is to go to the Paragraph dialog (I use the old hot keys,
Alt o followed by p), and edit the "After" field to 0 PT.  I've tried making
this setting the default, but Word doesn't remember the change if you close
and re-open it.  I've also tried checking the box that says, "Don't add
spaces between paragraphs of the same style," but it doesn't remember that
either.  If anyone has a permanent fix, I'd like to hear it.

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[mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:47 PM
To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] Word 2010 question

I did too, but here (at least), JAWS will only report single spacing if
explicitly set. The default reported is 1 line. I don't know if there's a
visible difference, but the "normal" style can be globally modified to
single-space lines by default in any case. This does assume that the default
new document template is still based on normal.dot.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:55:42 -0700, Jim wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>  
> 
> Someone asked me a question this morning that I wasn'
> 
> T sure how to answer.
> 
> He asked how Word could be set to by default be in single space mode.  
> I thought that was the default and that one could change the spacing 
> with things like the ribbons or CTRL followed by numbers.
> 
> Anyway, I guess he wants the default to be single spaced.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jim
> 
>  
> 
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