How to set the line spacing for the whole document?

Hi,

I am using MS Office Word 2003 SP2.

I start with a blank document and want to insert a picture from a file by
Insert/Picture/From File. No problem. Once I exit from that dialog box, I
end up with a chopped off version of my picture in my document. I have to
go to: Format/Paragraph and then in the "Line Spacing" dropdown it shows
"Exactly". By changing this to "Single" and then click OK, when the dialog
box closes my document shows the picture I just inserted properly formatted.

So my question is this: what do I have to do in order to prevent this from
happening? I don't want to have to go and reformat the line spacing every
time I insert a picture. Is there a way to fix this so that it becomes part
of normal.dot?

This is very annoying especially when trying to write a document where I am
inserting many screenshots. I would highly appreciate any info on this,
please.

regards,
joe

Change the line spacing in your Normal style to "automatic". See
the "To change a style" section in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...alTemplate.htm
for more information.

am wrote:

Hi,

I am using MS Office Word 2003 SP2.

I start with a blank document and want to insert a picture from a file by
Insert/Picture/From File. No problem. Once I exit from that dialog box, I
end up with a chopped off version of my picture in my document. I have to
go to: Format/Paragraph and then in the "Line Spacing" dropdown it shows
"Exactly". By changing this to "Single" and then click OK, when the dialog
box closes my document shows the picture I just inserted properly formatted.

So my question is this: what do I have to do in order to prevent this from
happening? I don't want to have to go and reformat the line spacing every
time I insert a picture. Is there a way to fix this so that it becomes part
of normal.dot?

This is very annoying especially when trying to write a document where I am
inserting many screenshots. I would highly appreciate any info on this,
please.

regards,
joe

Thank you very much!!

joe


"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
...
Change the line spacing in your Normal style to "automatic". See the "To
change a style" section in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...alTemplate.htm
for more information.

am wrote:

Hi,

I am using MS Office Word 2003 SP2.

I start with a blank document and want to insert a picture from a file by
Insert/Picture/From File. No problem. Once I exit from that dialog box,
I end up with a chopped off version of my picture in my document. I have
to go to: Format/Paragraph and then in the "Line Spacing" dropdown it
shows "Exactly". By changing this to "Single" and then click OK, when
the dialog box closes my document shows the picture I just inserted
properly formatted.

So my question is this: what do I have to do in order to prevent this
from happening? I don't want to have to go and reformat the line spacing
every time I insert a picture. Is there a way to fix this so that it
becomes part of normal.dot?

This is very annoying especially when trying to write a document where I
am inserting many screenshots. I would highly appreciate any info on
this, please.

regards,
joe

Start by restoring Normal style to "Single" spacing. Then define a Body Text
style with the Exact spacing required and a Picture style with Single
spacing. Apply as appropriate.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I am using MS Office Word 2003 SP2.

I start with a blank document and want to insert a picture from a file by
Insert/Picture/From File. No problem. Once I exit from that dialog box,
I
end up with a chopped off version of my picture in my document. I have to
go to: Format/Paragraph and then in the "Line Spacing" dropdown it shows
"Exactly". By changing this to "Single" and then click OK, when the
dialog
box closes my document shows the picture I just inserted properly
formatted.

So my question is this: what do I have to do in order to prevent this from
happening? I don't want to have to go and reformat the line spacing every
time I insert a picture. Is there a way to fix this so that it becomes
part
of normal.dot?

This is very annoying especially when trying to write a document where I
am
inserting many screenshots. I would highly appreciate any info on this,
please.

regards,
joe