You can change the default line spacing by following the steps below. It also automatically adds 8 points of space after each paragraph (after a hard return). Volunteering to 'pay forward' to return help I've received in the Microsoft user community.Upon installation, Microsoft Word uses 1.08 line spacing by default. Take Doug's original answer and Suzanne's page to the professor and let him/her think about it. See what happens if, when you have everything selected, you add the numbers to the settings as they are in the first box. Word blanks things out when it has different settings. It is blank because you may have different paragraphs with different settings. I thought going to Line Spacing and selecting 'single space' was single spacing my document. Looking at these screen shots, did I for all intents and purposes, single space my document? As an average user - I don't go into the line spacing feature and select 'exactly' and fit to a specific size. With that, I got a full 8 pages minus exactly one word. The instructions were to use Times News Roman 12 pt font, which is what was used and to single space.

I also sent the professor my Word document. I hit the covert to pdf button in my WORD. I should add my documents were sent in Adobe PDF format. Now, I don't know why it is blank, what it means or how it being blank effects the document. When I select all the text within the document I get blanks: When I click on the white space within the document, then go to paragraph settings, this is what I see: I just made a copy of my original, opened the document and took screen shots right now. On all essays I submitted on the same day, my spacing was as follows: *Note nothing has changed since the day it was submitted. In other words, it doesn't matter what default line spacing she has on her WORD at the time she opens my document to view it, correct? And also, when she opens my Word document she should see the same spacing I had when the document was created. I want to confirm two things: If I understand correctly, depending on what drivers the professor is using, she may get 9 pages or more because the line spacing may be off, correct? Note, she is not printing out the document, rather just viewing it. Perhaps screen shots of my settings would help which I've attached. Please forgive me if I am asking the same question - just in a different way. I am learning a lot by this process, but still unsure if I followed the professors instructions when I compare my WORD settings. Again thank you for your responses I do appreciate your help.

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