
It said I couldn’t save as the same name as the original, so I saved it as Normal1.dotm. Once it was the way I wanted it, I saved the document in the same file location as the template was located. After opening it, I changed the formatting and settings in the “Styles” formatting to what I wanted. After I read your comment, I closed down Word, went to C:\users\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates and opened up the document called Normal.dotm. I have Microsoft Word 2010, and have tried every single tutorial out there on how to fix this ugly mess of double or 1.5 spacing.

Hat tip to the Microsoft Office Knowledge Base for this one.Īmazing!! Thank you Bluehole. Now, when you review your Paragraph dialog box, you’ll see this:.To make this change effective for all new documents based on the Normal template, drop this menu down again, and choose Set as Default.Click it, then choose Style Set, then click on Word 2003 (which will change the default styles for that document to the ones where Normal paragraphs have single spacing with no extra space after paragraphs. You’ll see a drop-down called Change Styles.

On the home tab of the ribbon, find the Styles section (on the right).If you want to change the default back to that single line spacing that looks good on paper, then here’s what you do: The default paragraph settings for Word 2010 So they made line spacing in the Normal template 1.15 instead of 1.

Well, it seems that Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, decided that since we’re all posting documents on the Interwebs, we could all do with a more online-friendly line spacing scheme. If you’ve upgraded to one of the ribbon-interface versions of Microsoft Office recently, you may have noticed that every new document you create (as opposed to editing or making new documents from earlier ones) has this weird, more open line spacing.
