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From: John Salerno on 25 Jun 2008 14:34
Please please please, someone tell me how to change the default setting of
"Normal" to "No Spacing" in the Styles section of the Home ribbon. I just
can't seem to figure out how to change this for new documents, so I manually
do it each time. I really hate this feature.

Thanks.


From: Stefan Blom on 26 Jun 2008 04:59
In the Styles pane, which you can display by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S,
click the Manage Styles button. In the dialog box, click the Set Defaults
tab. Make the desired changes. In particular, set the "Line spacing" to
"Single" and the "Before" and "After" settings to zero. When you are done,
click "New documents based on this template," and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"John Salerno" <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Please please please, someone tell me how to change the default setting of
> "Normal" to "No Spacing" in the Styles section of the Home ribbon. I just
> can't seem to figure out how to change this for new documents, so I
> manually do it each time. I really hate this feature.
>
> Thanks.
>


From: John Salerno on 26 Jun 2008 09:04
"Stefan Blom" <no.spam(a)please.xyz> wrote in message
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> In the Styles pane, which you can display by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S,
> click the Manage Styles button. In the dialog box, click the Set Defaults
> tab. Make the desired changes. In particular, set the "Line spacing" to
> "Single" and the "Before" and "After" settings to zero. When you are done,
> click "New documents based on this template," and then click OK.

This isn't exactly what I want. What this seems to do is change the default
settings for the "Normal" style. I don't want this, in case I ever want or
need to switch back to Normal style.

What I want is for the "No Spacing" style to be selected as the default when
I create a new document. Is this possible?


From: John Salerno on 26 Jun 2008 09:12
"John Salerno" <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> This isn't exactly what I want. What this seems to do is change the
> default settings for the "Normal" style. I don't want this, in case I ever
> want or need to switch back to Normal style.
>
> What I want is for the "No Spacing" style to be selected as the default
> when I create a new document. Is this possible?

Ah, finally I figured it out. I changed the entire style set to "Word 2003"
and set that as the default. So now the "Normal" style for the Word 2003 set
is what I want.


From: Stefan Blom on 27 Jun 2008 04:42
I'm glad you got it sorted.

Note, however, that there *is* a difference between setting the defaults
(via the Manage Styles dialog box) and changing the Normal style. For
example, changes made to the default settings will affect the corresponding
settings of all styles (where that setting hasn't been explicitly defined),
no matter if the style has a base style (parent style) or not.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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> "John Salerno" <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:486393fb$0$22490$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>> This isn't exactly what I want. What this seems to do is change the
>> default settings for the "Normal" style. I don't want this, in case I
>> ever want or need to switch back to Normal style.
>>
>> What I want is for the "No Spacing" style to be selected as the default
>> when I create a new document. Is this possible?
>
> Ah, finally I figured it out. I changed the entire style set to "Word
> 2003" and set that as the default. So now the "Normal" style for the Word
> 2003 set is what I want.
>






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