Word 2004 Formatting Issue (SOLVED)

Grundlestiltskin

So I'm trying to compose a paper from a bunch of segments written by other people in my group, everyone has their own format settings I guess. My problem is, I can't get Word 2004 (Mac) to override these settings and just go with one, coherent format. Weird shit keeps happening.

My biggest issue is, one section of the paper INSISTS on double spacing between paragraphs. I have paragraph settings to 0 before and after paragraphs, but it does it anyway. It is driving me insane. Please help.

Arikado

Just copy everything over with the funky formatting and after you're done, select everything and format it the way you want it.

Grundlestiltskin

The problem is that the formatting won't change the way I want it to. I'm highlighting two paragraphs with a double space in between, setting before/after spacing to 0, and it doesn't do anything. It just leaves a space there.

Deleting the paragraph and hitting enter again double spaces it still; hitting shift-enter moves it down one line, but then trying to indent via tab shifts both paragraphs to the right.

This is intensely frustrating.

kuhlmeye

Not sure if this in word 2004 but:

In the "Paragraph" options window, after the part where you can put spacing numbers, there should be a checkbox that says "Don't add space between paragraphs of same style." Check this.

If it's not there, it's probably hidden somewhere else, but it's how I fixed that issue.

Arikado

There is line spacing and paragraph spacing.

Grundlestiltskin

I ended up fixing the problem segment by just cutting the text and pasting it back unformatted.

Thanks for the feedback, can probably lock this now.