Changing text to single-spaced even after hitting (carriage) Return.

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  celeniadelsol · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  Sometimes I include indented (or not indented – indentation is not the issue) poetry, but at the end of every line, when I hit “return”, it double-spaces to the next line. I want it to single-space.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 6:48 pm

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  See here please http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/
  Note: To display the second row of icons, select the toolbar toggle icon
  http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kitchensink.png?w=27&h=27

  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text Therefore you have to do your own formatting and spacing.

  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  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/advanced-html/

  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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  celeniadelsol · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 7:37 pm

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  Thank you for all of this and the links you provided. I found the answer I needed: “Press the SHIFT button as you hit RETURN, and it will single-space instead of double-space.” Simple.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 7:43 pm

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  Do make sure you have done this:
  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  You are welcome and best wishes with your blog.