Beautiful document formatting is half the work. After all, everyone will agree that reading a structured and perfectly composed article is incredibly nice. This raises interest.
In this article, we’ll talk about how to remove spaces between paragraphs in Word. in all possible ways. After all, paragraphs are also part of formatting. And when there is awkward large indentation between them, it is unaesthetic.
Extra paragraphs
First of all, before talking about how to remove large spaces between paragraphs in Word, it’s worth talking about a slightly different problem. Sometimes the fault of such gaps is the carelessness and inattention of the user himself. Instead of once, he can press the ENTER key twice. Thus, making two paragraphs. Now we’ll figure out how to remove spaces between paragraphs in Word if they are caused by double-clicking ENTER.
Of course, you will not see the number of paragraphs put visually, only if you do not activate a special option in Word. We’ll talk about her now.
First you need to visualize non-printable characters. This is done by clicking the corresponding button on the toolbar. You can easily see its location in the picture below.
After clicking the button, all non-printing characters will become visible in the article. We are only interested in one paragraph. Its sign is the same as on the button that we pressed - "¶".
Now, all you have to do is look through the entire text for double paragraphs. And in case of detection of such, one of them is easy to remove.
Apply Styles
Now for more serious problems, we’ll talk about how to remove spaces between paragraphs in the 2007 Word, if the formatting was the reason for their appearance. We will analyze the easiest way, we will change the style of the text itself. Why exactly 2007? The answer is simple. The fact is that it is in this version of the program that these very styles appeared. But if you have a later version, then you will have them too.
So the bottom line is simple. Initially, you need to select the text itself. If it will undergo the entire change, then you can use the CTRL + A keys. Having selected the necessary fragment, you need to go to the "Home" tab, if you are not on it now. There, pay attention to the "Styles" area. You can scroll through them with the arrow in the center or open the entire list with the bottom one.
When you hover over a style, you’ll see how your text changes after you apply it. As a result, picking up what you like - apply the changes.
Using Paragraph Settings
If among all the styles you did not find suitable, then it is better to use the full setting. Now we’ll show you how to remove large spaces between paragraphs in Word through the Paragraph settings menu.
Initially, you need to get into this very menu. To do this, click the appropriate button on the toolbar. It is located on the "Home" tab, and its exact location can be seen in the picture below.
Once in the settings, make sure that the first tab is selected - "Indents and intervals." As you might guess, among all the parameters we are only interested in one thing - "Interval". You can observe the exact location of the placement of the distance between paragraphs in the picture.
In order to change the amount of space between paragraphs, you need to change the value of these two counters. In the case when you want to completely remove the gap - set the value to "0".
Once you have entered all the parameters, you should click the "OK" button to apply them. In case you want to set the entered parameters by default, click the "Default" button, and in the window that appears, select which documents you want to save the settings for.
Change in a couple of mouse clicks (first method)
It should be noted right away that using the previous method, you could make the most flexible adjustment of the interval between paragraphs. Well, now we’ll talk about how to remove spaces between paragraphs in Word so that they do not exist at all.
This is done quite simply, you just need to find the right button on the toolbar. It is located, as usual, on the "Home" tab, and its exact location you can see in the picture.
Click on it to open a dropdown menu. In it, we are interested in only one line - "Delete the interval after the paragraph." Of course, you can add an interval before a paragraph here, as well as set the line spacing, but this is already done at will.
This was not the last way, as in “Word” to remove spaces between paragraphs, there is another one that we will now move on to.
Change in a couple of mouse clicks (second method)
Now we will look at a way to remove spaces between paragraphs in Word 2010 years and more. The fact is that in earlier versions of the program this function is not.
So, initially you need to go to the "Page Layout" tab. Find the area called the “Paragraph” there. Now find the fields above which "Interval" is written. They are responsible for the distance between paragraphs. To remove spaces completely, specify a value of "0". If you want to adjust the distance, then set the parameters manually.