

The “x” just would not stay in the “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style” box, no matter how or in what order I checked the default box. I tried the original solution several times, but I could not make it work either. Your workaround solved the problem I was having with the extra space added after paragraphs. Click Default to save the change to your default Microsoft Word template.CAUTION: You have to decide if this is the best solution for your situation…this may cause a ripple effect if you have other paragraph styles based on this particular style. It is a clunky way to do it, but this may work for you:Right above where you select Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style, set the Before and After Spacing to 0pt. I’ll post my findings here.In the meantime, here is a workaround. I’ll need to do some research on the Microsoft Knowledge Base to see if I can find some answers. Yes, I was able to recreate your problem. Is this possible? I have to go in and check that every time I open a new document. I checked “don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style”, but it will not save that setting. I followed these instructions to change the default paragraph formatting. Please add to the discussion using the comment box at the end of the page.) (These comments are from a previous commenting system.

Once the new style is saved, every paragraph that is marked with that style is changed to the new settings.

When you click the Default button, all settings in the Paragraph dialog box are saved to the Normal.dotm template, which is the default template in Word 2007. Change the paragraph indentation and line spacing settings as desired.On the Home tab in the Paragraph group, click the launcher to open the Paragraph dialog box.To save changes to the default Word 2007 template, follow these steps: Change paragraph formatting for the default template
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Changing the template does not change already existing documents, so instructions for how to apply the paragraph formatting to all paragraphs in a document you already created are included. To make your paragraph formatting changes permanent and available for any file, you need to save the change to the Normal.dotm template.
