"Don't Add Space Between Paragraphs of the Same Style"-Driving Me Crazy! MS Office 365 Home Premium

It is best to apply that setting when modifying the style to which you want it applied.

Press Ctrl+Shift+s to display the apply Styles dialog and then when you have the selection in  paragraph that is formatted with the Style that you want to modify, that Style will appear in the Apply Styles dialog.  When it does, click on the Modify button and then on Format>Paragraph in the Modify Style dialog and check the box for "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style", then click on OK and then select the radio button for "New documents based on this template" before clicking on OK in the Modify Style dialog.

In particular, if you see this with bullet and number formats, make sure to clear the option that Doug mentioned in the Modify Style dialog box for the List Paragraph style.

You didn't answer the person's question at ALL! It seems that the program is permanently stuck on creating a space between lines, and every time you open a new document for use, you have to go to the "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style" button and click it. That is ridiculous. You even have the option to make it "Default," but that doesn't work, because it never applies itself.

I am baffled that Microsoft has not either fixed this problem or come up with a fix FOR this problem. It is all over Google Search, and no one seems to have found an answer.

If you don't have a way to fix something, and you're just going to babble on about non-applicable stuff, then don't bother answering.

Sheesh!

You are actually asking a different question. If you're using the Normal style for the entire document, then you can certainly make it the default for that style by modifying the style and saving the change to the template (select the radio button for "New documents based on this template"). But if the problem really is that you don't want space between your paragraphs, a more sensible approach would be to remove the Spacing After from the Normal style (or, better, the document defaults) and save that change to the template. To do this:

1. Press Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S to open the Styles pane.
2. In the bottom left corner of the pane are three buttons. Click the third, Manage Styles.
3. In the Manage Styles dialog, select the Set Defaults tab.
4. Under "Paragraph Spacing," set "After" to 0. You may also want to set the line spacing to Single.
5. Select the radio button for "New documents based on this template."
6. Click OK.

There is a conceptual difference here. The "Don't add space..." option should be used when the same style is applied to several consecutive paragraphs and you don't want any spacing between them. When there is an "intervening" style, the spacing will no longer be suppressed. A typical example is items in a (short) numbered or bulleted list, for which you may not want spacing but you do want spacing for intervening non-numbered paragraphs.

On the other hand, if you want a certain paragraph style to never apply any paragraph spacing, you should set Spacing Before and After to zero.

Both of these settings can be added to the template using the "New documents based on this template" option that Suzanne mentioned in her reply.

Suzanne's solution works! I've been wondering about this problem for longer than I can remember. Of course, it only takes ten seconds to change, but doing that every single time I start a new document gets pretty annoying.

Doug's ostensible solution is garbage. The only thing it changes is your faith in people named Doug.

With reference to the information that I posted, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!

There are two different things:

1. Suppressing space between paragraphs of the same style
2. Removing space between paragraphs whether of the same style or not

The original question was about item 1 above and my response is correct for that situation.  Suzanne's information concerned item 2.

The important thing is that to have which ever setting it is apply to all documents (created after the change is made) it is necessary to select the radio button for "New documents based on this template.", which both Suzanne and I included in our individual responses.

Of course, it only takes ten seconds to change, but doing that every single time I start a new document gets pretty annoying.

If you select the radio button for "New documents based on this template," you should not have to make the change every time you start a new document. The change will not, however, apply to existing documents.

As stated previously, there are two different concepts being discussed here: suppressing spacing (in certain circumstances) versus explicitly setting the spacing to zero.

If "New documents based on this template" isn't working, you can open your template explicitly and change the style directly; then save and close the template. The next step is to troubleshoot for poorly designed add-ins which may prevent saving changes to templates via "New documents based on this template." See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541/en-us.

Also, please refrain from personal attacks; review the Code of Conduct at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/page/faq#faqCodeConduct.