Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Line Spacing - not appearing as single space

At 18:28 14/10/2015 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote:
> In Libre Writer 4.3.5.2, I wanted to change the plain text to single 
> spacing for all lines of text in all paragraphs. I highlighted all 
> the lines and then I followed both of these suggestions but it still 
> appears double-spaced although it says it's single spaced but isn't
> 1. Select the paragraph and then go to Format, Paragraph, Indents & 
> Spacing tab, Line Spacing.
> 2. Right click to open the context menu > Line Spacing.
>
> How do I truly secure single spacing?

One possibility is that your "lines" here are not lines of a single 
continuous paragraph but actually separate paragraphs or explicitly 
separate lines. Remember that in any word processor a paragraph is 
however much text is separated by pressing Enter, not necessarily 
what you see as a paragraph. These paragraphs may have vertical 
spacing set between paragraphs, either locally for the paragraphs or 
in their paragraph style, or there may be empty paragraphs between 
each of your visible paragraphs (as by pressing Enter twice in 
succession). Or you may have double explicit line breaks between each 
line (as by pressing Shift+Enter twice in succession). Situations 
like this can easily arise if you paste material in from elsewhere. 
Click the Non-printing Characters button in the Standard toolbar (or 
use Ctrl+F10) to toggle the display of end-of-line and 
end-of-paragraph markers and see what is happening.

Other possibilities are that the text is in either a section or a 
table cell and that these have been protected by the author. But that 
doesn't fit your description, since in those cases the menu items you 
describe should either be greyed out or missing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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