How to Control Paragraph Spacing?

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  walkingcreek · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 4:13 pm

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  I compose posts offline in Text Edit (Mac), then make the copy Plain Text before copying and pasting into WordPress’s visual editor. That allows me to format in WordPress, but there are no paragraph symbols, and the space between paragraphs seems entirely variable. Sometimes none, sometimes too much, sometimes just right. I can’t see what’s happening. How can I control the number of lines between paragraphs? /Mr Lynn

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  shini1509 · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 5:48 pm

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  Hey ,

  Hope you are doing good :)
  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/

  Hope this helps you.
  Revert incase u need further help.

  Thankks:)

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  jessboctor · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 5:57 pm

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  Hi WalkingCreek,

  I notice that it seems some of your formatting issues seems to due to using the ‘Quote’ functionality within WordPress.

  In your toolbar, there is a ‘Quote’ button which is not meant to be used within a regular paragraph, but is a separate styling tool. When quoting within a paragraph, you can use a regular quote as you would in your text edit screen.

  Here are some examples:

  This is a paragraph where I quote you saying, “Man! This is so helpful!”

  This is a stylized quote using the button from the toolbar.

  I hope that makes sense and helps you with your spacing dilemma!

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  walkingcreek · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 9:02 pm

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  Thanks, Shini and Jess.

  Shini, that link you posted gets me to some Spanish site: http://recargas.com

  ???

  But I’ll try to implement the useful tips you offered.

  Jess, I do understand the difference between regular quotes and blockquotes. Sometimes paragraphs one blockquotes can have regular quotes within them, but that should not be a formatting problem.

  /Mr Lynn

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  jessboctor · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 10:13 pm

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  Hi @walkingcreek,

  I apologize for my misunderstanding.

  Here is the link to the formatting tips which @shini1509 originally cited:
  https://www.rockyrasonable.com/websites/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing

  Have a great day!

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  galois · Member · Oct 25, 2018 at 10:53 pm

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  @walkingcreek :
  Maybe this guide will help you with the texts, paragraphs, etc.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  Cheers! 🙂