FINALLY!!! MS Word 2007 Extra Paragraph Removal Solution

If you’ve spent a measurable amount of time in MS Word 2007 you’ll notice that by default there is an extra space added to the end of a carriage return (hitting the enter key).  The reason: the most popular formatting in the academic community is double spaced.  If you write for this area or are in this profession and need this type of formatting to continue, click the Back button in your browser.

If you’re tired of the extra return at the end of a paragraph or after you hit the enter key, keep reading.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Home tab.
   
2. Click Change Styles in the Styles group, point to Style Set, and then click the style set that you want to use.
   

   To change the default formatting of your document, such as the line spacing and paragraph spacing, to the default formatting that is used in earlier versions of Word, click Word 2003.

3. To set the style set as the default style set in Word 2007, click Change Styles in the Styles group, and then click Set as Default.  This will REMOVE the extra paragraph default setting for all new MS Word documents.
   
4. Voila, you’re done.