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MS WORD using VISTA

Posted by busylizzy • 5/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: computer, microsoft word, vista

I need help!

My daughter has VISTA on her computer. It forces you to make paragraph breaks the "business" way, that is - no indent for the 1st line of each new paragraph and skip one line space between paragraphs.

The problem is that my daughter's teacher wants her typed reports to be the "old fashioned" way, that is - indent 5 spaces for the 1st line of each new paragraph and do not skip a line when starting the new paragraph.

With Vista, if I hit the enter key to drop to the next line, it jumps down and skips a line.

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5/02/09

radioflyer1980

Vista is the operating system, Word would be the application that manages how paragraphs are done. If she has a new version of Word, there should be a way to manage the template with whatever font, whatever spacing, whatever paragraph style. It's in different places in different versions of Word, but if you look at the online help (ask "how to change default paragraph format") it should be able to guide you through the change. Good luck!

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1. 5/03/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  RF - WORD changed quite a bit when VISTA came out. Everything is in a new place and there are lots of extras. It's hard to find things. We've been poking around for quite awhile now tring to find a way to fix this problem. Guess I'll have to contact customer support.
  
  Thanks for commenting.
5/02/09

free111

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5/02/09

umarjaaved

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5/03/09

onceafortnight

Go into WORD and into the page layout tab.
In the paragraph box there is a tiny arrow on the bottom right corner - click on it to expand the options window for paragraph function.

Under line spacing - make sure it is on single or change it.

Under spacing click the little check box that says "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"

As long as you use the same style (ie first line indented) on each paragraph it should remove that line space between them.

Hope it helps.

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1. 5/03/09
  
  busylizzy
  
  I will try this right away!
2. 5/03/09
  
  PotatoChef
  
  Somebody actually gave an answer to the problem!!
3. 5/03/09
  
  onceafortnight
  
  Ummm I hope so! Try it first - it worked for me - I have WORD 2007 with my VISTA
5/03/09

legbamel

Alternatively, using a Shift-Enter will give her a line break without technically ending the paragraph. If she clicks on the ruler to set a tab at the appropriate location, she can simply Shift-Enter and hit Tab to begin a new paragraph.

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