How to change spacing between lines?

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  klistick · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:29 pm

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  I’m trying to put in a recipe on my blog and when I click “return” to go to the next line, instead of only inserting one line it inserts two. How do I change this?

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  stberge · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:51 pm

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  Hold down the shift key and press return

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:55 pm

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  klistick,

  Please provide a link to your blog when you ask a question in the forums: often we need to see what the problem is. Also, lots of self-hosted bloggers come here and WordPress.com is not the same as WordPress.org.

  Here’s some info, including how to link your name to your blog (#2 in the list):
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

  I type my recipes in HTML (Don’t worry, you don’t need to know code) because you can press return without getting the double-spacing as in the Visual Editor. I switch back to Visual Editor to format the text.

  The other option is to hold shift down as you press return.

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  klistick · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:56 pm

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  Thank you – it works! Wonder if I’m going to have to do that every time I want to go to the next line?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:58 pm

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  If you switch to HTML, you don’t have to hold down shift/return. Once it’s typed, you can switch to Visual Editor to format it.

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  klistick · Member · Feb 17, 2009 at 1:34 am

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  Thanks very much. I’ll explore this further.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 17, 2009 at 1:48 am

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  Best wishes, and don’t let yourself be scared by using the HTML editor.
  >^.^<

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  minstrelite · Member · Mar 9, 2009 at 5:37 pm

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  I’ve only been on WordPress for approximately three days, and have been having the exact same problem, so this has been very informative. Thank you.