line spacing

This is something that drives me absolutely bezerk!

Why is it that sometimes, if I have 1.5 line spacing, but
want (say) 2 lines at 1.0, I can highlight them, select and
apply the spacing that I want without affecting other
text... but other times (most of the time) it doesn't work
that way?

Is there a setting somewhere to tell Word that I want to be
able to select certain lines and apply the spacing JUST to
that area w/o Word applying it to other text? I looked in
Format > Paragraph > Indents & Spacing, but I don't want a
whole paragraph solution, I want a line by line solution and
I want it to be global.

For instance:
Bullets... I want them spaced 1.5, but any multiple lines
within a bullet at 1.0.

Recipes... I want the ingredients listed at 1.5, but the
instructions at 1.0.

TIA


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garfieldnodie
Tue Jul 20 17:08:02 CDT 2004

Hi, sf. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm.


"sf" wrote:

>
> This is something that drives me absolutely bezerk!
>
> Why is it that sometimes, if I have 1.5 line spacing, but
> want (say) 2 lines at 1.0, I can highlight them, select and
> apply the spacing that I want without affecting other
> text... but other times (most of the time) it doesn't work
> that way?
>
> Is there a setting somewhere to tell Word that I want to be
> able to select certain lines and apply the spacing JUST to
> that area w/o Word applying it to other text? I looked in
> Format > Paragraph > Indents & Spacing, but I don't want a
> whole paragraph solution, I want a line by line solution and
> I want it to be global.
>
> For instance:
> Bullets... I want them spaced 1.5, but any multiple lines
> within a bullet at 1.0.
>
> Recipes... I want the ingredients listed at 1.5, but the
> instructions at 1.0.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>

Suzanne
Tue Jul 20 22:15:41 CDT 2004

Line spacing is a paragraph property. You can't have some lines in a
paragraph with different spacing from the rest.

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"sf" <nobody@comcast.com> wrote in message
news:1q3rf0hihe2aefm8sim7ittubu18ijujdq@4ax.com...
>
> This is something that drives me absolutely bezerk!
>
> Why is it that sometimes, if I have 1.5 line spacing, but
> want (say) 2 lines at 1.0, I can highlight them, select and
> apply the spacing that I want without affecting other
> text... but other times (most of the time) it doesn't work
> that way?
>
> Is there a setting somewhere to tell Word that I want to be
> able to select certain lines and apply the spacing JUST to
> that area w/o Word applying it to other text? I looked in
> Format > Paragraph > Indents & Spacing, but I don't want a
> whole paragraph solution, I want a line by line solution and
> I want it to be global.
>
> For instance:
> Bullets... I want them spaced 1.5, but any multiple lines
> within a bullet at 1.0.
>
> Recipes... I want the ingredients listed at 1.5, but the
> instructions at 1.0.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Stefan
Wed Jul 21 03:48:08 CDT 2004

Like Suzanne said, you cannot have different line spacing for
different lines within a paragraph. However, I'm not sure that is what
you need, either. If I understand your description of bulleted items
correctly, it seems as though you want single spacing within a
bulleted paragraph, but spacing between bullets, something like this:

- Bullet item one.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

- Bullet item two.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

If this is what you want, you can select the text and then choose
Paragraph from the Format menu. Click the Indents and Spacing tab.
Under "Line Spacing", specify "Single". And for "Space Before",
specify the desired amount in points. (If you are familiar with
paragraph styles, you can of course make these changes in the style
definition instead.)

--
Stefan Blom


"sf" <nobody@comcast.com> wrote in message
news:1q3rf0hihe2aefm8sim7ittubu18ijujdq@4ax.com...
>
> This is something that drives me absolutely bezerk!
>
> Why is it that sometimes, if I have 1.5 line spacing, but
> want (say) 2 lines at 1.0, I can highlight them, select and
> apply the spacing that I want without affecting other
> text... but other times (most of the time) it doesn't work
> that way?
>
> Is there a setting somewhere to tell Word that I want to be
> able to select certain lines and apply the spacing JUST to
> that area w/o Word applying it to other text? I looked in
> Format > Paragraph > Indents & Spacing, but I don't want a
> whole paragraph solution, I want a line by line solution and
> I want it to be global.
>
> For instance:
> Bullets... I want them spaced 1.5, but any multiple lines
> within a bullet at 1.0.
>
> Recipes... I want the ingredients listed at 1.5, but the
> instructions at 1.0.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments

sf
Thu Jul 22 02:10:24 CDT 2004

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:15:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
<sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote:

> Line spacing is a paragraph property. You can't have some lines in a
> paragraph with different spacing from the rest.

Thanks. I guess I discovered that by experience, but didn't
want to believe it was true. :(

If I put a hard return between bullets, would that make each
one a new paragraph?


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sf
Thu Jul 22 02:14:36 CDT 2004

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:48:08 +0200, "Stefan Blom"
<no.spam@please.xyz> wrote:

> Like Suzanne said, you cannot have different line spacing for
> different lines within a paragraph. However, I'm not sure that is what
> you need, either. If I understand your description of bulleted items
> correctly, it seems as though you want single spacing within a
> bulleted paragraph, but spacing between bullets, something like this:
>
> - Bullet item one.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> - Bullet item two.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> If this is what you want, you can select the text and then choose
> Paragraph from the Format menu. Click the Indents and Spacing tab.
> Under "Line Spacing", specify "Single". And for "Space Before",
> specify the desired amount in points.

AHA! That's a plan! I'm going to give it a try...
Many, many thanks for the input!

> (If you are familiar with
> paragraph styles, you can of course make these changes in the style
> definition instead.)

I'm not that sophisticated.

:)


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Stefan
Mon Jul 26 06:45:56 CDT 2004

"sf" <nobody@comcast.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:15:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
> <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote:
>
> > Line spacing is a paragraph property. You can't have some lines
in a
> > paragraph with different spacing from the rest.
>
> Thanks. I guess I discovered that by experience, but didn't
> want to believe it was true. :(
>
> If I put a hard return between bullets, would that make each
> one a new paragraph?
>

Yes, to press ENTER means to create a new paragraph.

--
Stefan Blom