How can I delete the space between lines that are supposed to be single spaced?
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When I paste text from a Word document into a new post field, the line spacing is not correct. I am able to delete the unwanted extra spaces that WordPress puts between some lines, but I am unable to delete the extra space that WordPress puts between the lines that are single spaced. How can I fix this problem? Thanks!
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PS – A friend told me a very simple way to do this last year (the last time I posted something) and I have forgotten how. I had to put the cursor at the beginning of a line and hit delete twice and then return once, or something like that, but that doesn’t seem to work now. The posts that can be seen on my blog look the way I want them to. This evening when I tried to add a new story, I encountered the problem again. I haven’t posted this story yet.
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I just added the story which I wanted to post earlier. I deleted all of the extra spaces that WordPress added, and there are few places where I would like to have some single spacing like in the stories that follow.
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The result of copy and pasting for example from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
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but I am unable to delete the extra space that WordPress puts between the lines that are single spaced. How can I fix this problem?
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. 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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