line spacing on website

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  brettalansanders · Member · Sep 15, 2021 at 7:38 pm

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  Hi,
  I am pretty well satisfied with the way I’ve got my book excerpts page settled with new block system, so this is a minor issue — which has also been an issue with the old systems:
  When I lay out verse on the page, and have to hit Enter after each line, I automatically get double space as if I were moving to a new paragraph: is there a way to keep the verse single-spaced?
  Here is the link if you want to see what I’m talking about; scroll down about half way until you see verse instead of prose:
  https://wordpress.com/page/brettalansanders.wordpress.com/33
  Thanks, Brett

  Site: https://brettalansanders.wordpress.com.
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  storygenie5 · Member · Sep 15, 2021 at 7:41 pm

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  Hi.

  I would like to let you know that I will be escalating this thread to staff

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 15, 2021 at 8:55 pm

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  To avoid the double space, use shift-return/enter. :)

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  brettalansanders · Member · Sep 15, 2021 at 9:31 pm

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  I’m not sure what that looks like. I have 2 shift keys with upward-pointed arrows; nothing that says “Return” on it, just symbols. My laptop is not much more than a year old. Assuming this problem is resolved, do I hold and release all the keys simultaneously? And can this be done on existing content if I highlight it?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 15, 2021 at 9:38 pm

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  Any of the shift keys will work. If you don’t have a Return key, you probably have an enter key.

  Basically, use the same key you hit to make a new line, but hold Shift whole you hit it.

  Shift if the key you hold to make a capital letter, so think of it like making a capital new line. :)

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  brettalansanders · Member · Sep 15, 2021 at 10:27 pm

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  So this is only for typing new content directly into block-formated web page?
  What about pasted-in texts from Word?

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Sep 16, 2021 at 12:16 am

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  When you paste content in from another source, it can depend. With Word specifically we see issues when content is pasted from that app, so we don’t typically recommend it: https://wordpress.com/support/microsoft-word/

  With that said, if you do notice some lines are coming in as double spaced you can clean that up by deleting the spacing, and then re-adding it (as a single space) by pressing SHIFT + ENTER again.

  Hope this helps!

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Sep 16, 2021 at 12:16 am

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  When you paste content in from another source, it can depend. With Word specifically we see issues when content is pasted from that app, so we don’t typically recommend it: https://wordpress.com/support/microsoft-word/

  With that said, if you do notice some lines are coming in as double spaced you can clean that up by deleting the spacing, and then re-adding it (as a single space) by pressing SHIFT + ENTER again.

  Hope this helps!

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  brettalansanders · Member · Sep 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm

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  Thanks. I tried this with the already pasted in copy, but it wouldn’t work.
  So I just erased it and typed it in using the suggestion you gave.
  Very helpful.