Double spacing is automatic, want single spacing

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  betsyorganizes · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm

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  Hi, I’m new here, trying to get some info. up and running. When I enter text for a new page, it automatically double spaces. How do I get it to go to single spacing? Thanks for any help!

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  thebirdingbunch · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm

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  That drives me nuts when it does that. What I do is click on the html tab and delete that extra space. Sometimes it will have the code which I delete. I cannot remember what it is specifically, but it as an “n” in it.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm

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  @betsyorganizes

  If you just press return between lines, then you will get “double-spacing.” You code will put in a paragraph when you do that: on the net paragraph spacing is equivalent to the extra line space.

  <p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Are you ready to <em>de-clutter</em> and take back <em>control</em> of your life…</strong></p>
  <p style="text-align:left;"><strong>…but don’t know where to start?</strong></p>

  You could go into the html editor to eliminate the < p style = etc. > and < p >s
  But it’s simpler to just hold down the shift key as you hit return so the editor won’t add the extra paragraph line.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 7, 2011 at 10:16 pm

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  @thebirdingbunch

  Do you have an example of where you are getting the extra spacing?
  http://

  Could it be
  &nbsp
  somehow inserting itself into your posts?

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  pekepenguin · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 10:27 pm

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  @1tess
  Thanks for this simple “shift key” way to do it.
  This has been bugging me for ages.

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  betsyorganizes · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm

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  Thanks for the help,the “shift” key tip works.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 10:46 pm

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  @pekepenguin
  See here for more. > WordPress Formatting and Spacing

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 8, 2011 at 1:30 am

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  Great! Then good blogging as you go on.

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  thebirdingbunch · Member · Nov 8, 2011 at 1:46 am

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  1tess,
  Yes, it is the &nbsp. Sometimes it shows up, other times not. I am not sure what I do differently.
  I will try the Shift key tip. That sounds easy.
  Thank you,

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 8, 2011 at 1:53 am

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  WordPress typically puts the &nbsp between the last two words in a sentence (likely triggered by a period (.). That is to keep from having single words orphaned on the last line of a paragraph.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 8, 2011 at 2:04 am

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  Yes, and if one switches from visual to html and back, there are things added or subtracted that don’t seem logical to me.

  I have noticed that non-breaking space “bug” occasionally. That’s why I asked.
  (not that is a “bug” maybe, but it is only a quirk)

  Many of thebirdingbunch’s latest posts are centered and bolded as well, so I was wondering if she is pasting from Word or some other word processor.