Can no longer insert space between paragraphs

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    wallybrooker · Member ·

    I’ve been blogging here for four years and only now have encountered
    a problem with paragraph spacing. When I copy and paste a document, I can no longer insert a line space between paragraphs. Whatever I do the paragraphs always run together. I suspect that this may be because I have have a new computer and I’ve switched my word processing software to Apache Open Office with the new laptop, rather than Microsoft Office. I can save the Open Office file in a .doc format, but I suspect that it’s not the same as before. Could this be the cause? Is there another cause? Is there a solution?

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    auxclass · Member ·

    Try putting the cursor at the end of the paragraph that is ahead – hit “Delete” on the keyboard to bring the text up so things run together – then hit return – should then get a real paragraph break, or space between the paragraphs – at least it worked for me a couple of days ago with pasted text

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzz(put cursor here)
    This is the start of the next paragraph text

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    timethief · Member ·

    Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/

    If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.

    If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

    Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/

    P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.

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