WordPad Nuts

[SARGE]

Running Win7 Pro and using WordPad driving me bonkers. Just writing a simple letter when I hit enter it double-spaces. When ending the letter with name, address, phone number it seems half the page taken up. Looks very unprofessional and can't figure how to change the format. Grrr......

[Hufigyed]

Hold down shift when you hit enter.

Or right-click somewhere on the page, click paragraph, and then uncheck "Add 10pt space after paragraphs".

[SARGE]

So I do at the end of each line? What a joke. Even old typewriters gave option of single or double-spacing. I'll get Microsoft Works b4 doing all that.

[Hufigyed]

No.

Originally Posted by Hufigyed right-click somewhere on the page, click paragraph, and then uncheck "Add 10pt space after paragraphs".

Although you probably have to do this for each new document you create. MS Word does the same thing I believe. You have to set the spacing for each new document.
There may be a way to make that the default setting but I don't know it.

[pam123]

There should be an icon in the tool bar at the top of the window that has a pair of arrows pointing up and down.
Click on that and select your spacing.

[glc]

At the end of each line, just keep typing and let word wrap do its thing..............you are still thinking like a typewriter.

[SARGE]

Alot of my stuff I have to indent so word wrap won't work. In my book, it should default to single space, not double. Pam was right about the arrows. However, I fixed the problem by installing an old copy of MS Works 9. Evidently they don't make MS Works anymore, wonder why? It has the old reliable envelope printing as well. Now, if I can get my old HP 7350 to work on Win 7, envelopes will be flying. My Epson Artisan 810 may be good for pics and scanning and printing, but I need envelopes.