
Pick which spacing you want (the default is Open), and notice your whole document will preview as you mouse over the different settings. How do I get rid of extra space between paragraphs in Word?Ĭlick Design, then Paragraph Spacing. Type one space in the Replace with field.Type two spaces in the Find what field.Hit CTRL+H to open the Find and Replace window.Hit CTRL+A to select all the text in the document.(You can use lines you establish in your header/footer for an overall box effect.How to Quickly Remove Double Spaces in Word I aligned the left edge and used manual line breaks on the right since I wasn't showing the table lines. I discovered I could align either the L or R edge of the table but not both reliably. Sometimes I could resize the table to be within bounds, and then it would bounce back out. Broke it into a second table to see if that would help. On the second page, the table rows went out of bounds, as if I'd set different R and L page margins. I solved the last remaining problems by setting a specific (exactly, not at least) row height for each row and set each to allow breaking across pages. I copied the misbehaving likes to Notepad to strip hidden formatting, put them back, and they jumped to the bottom of their respective pages.ĢND FOLLOW UP: Word 2013 is either buggy or there is a demon in the online template I chose. They are consecutive pages so it isn't a folio verso thing. Table is formatted to put all text at the top.

)įOLLOW UP: Actually, the above described technique helped, but I still get two pages with two lines at the bottom. Thanks to Rick for mentioning that nasty "Keep with next" setting. I found it difficult to do it while still in the table, because I could pull up the Paragraph settings only randomly, not consistently. Then I could select the entire thing and turn off widow and orphan control. The default in the resume template I used was "keep with next." I copied the column to a new document and converted it from table to text.
