Line spacing gone bonkers

The spacing between the lines suddenly went goofy in a publication.
All text boxes are now overflowing because of a very wide space
between the lines.
The style is Publishers default Normal with a 1.25 spacing, but looks
more like 2.5.
Clear formatting had no effect, but the style Job Title puts things
back to normal. I have to select all in every text box and change the
style.
What gives?
Mac

Are you using a template?

Select a text box, edit, select all, format, paragraph, set your line spacing.
The default is 1sp and the before and after paragraph setting is 0pt.

On the toolbar select the Painter. Read this article to learn how to use it.
Quickly copy formatting with the Format Painter
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...548921033.aspx
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"McPop" wrote in message
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The spacing between the lines suddenly went goofy in a publication.
All text boxes are now overflowing because of a very wide space
between the lines.
The style is Publishers default Normal with a 1.25 spacing, but looks
more like 2.5.
Clear formatting had no effect, but the style Job Title puts things
back to normal. I have to select all in every text box and change the
style.
What gives?
Mac

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:31:46 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote:

Are you using a template?
No

Select a text box, edit, select all, format, paragraph, set your line spacing.
The default is 1sp and the before and after paragraph setting is 0pt.
Those are the settings. Unfortunately it looks and prints like double
spacing. The cursor is the same large size.
If I, Select All, Clear Formatting, nothing happens. Same with Normal.

On the toolbar select the Painter. Read this article to learn how to use it.
Quickly copy formatting with the Format Painter
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...548921033.aspx
Mac

McPop wrote:
Those are the settings. Unfortunately it looks and prints like double
spacing. The cursor is the same large size.
If I, Select All, Clear Formatting, nothing happens. Same with Normal.

What font are you using?

Have you turned on alignment to Baseline Guides on? (Publisher 2003 only)

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:14:25 +0100, Ed Bennett
wrote:

McPop wrote:
Those are the settings. Unfortunately it looks and prints like double
spacing. The cursor is the same large size.
If I, Select All, Clear Formatting, nothing happens. Same with Normal.

What font are you using?

Verdana, but I have the same results with all fonts.
Right now, I have a single text box containing a 14 point word. I
cannot see anything except the lower 20% of the word with a very large
space below. The word is pushed up into the top of the text box. The
cursor size matches the font size and can be seen the same way.
My version is 2002, so I don't see the baseline option, although
that sounds like the problem.
Why does "Job Title" correct the problem?

Have you turned on alignment to Baseline Guides on? (Publisher 2003 only)

Format the text box differently, right-click the text box, format text box, set
the vertical alignment to middle, change the text box margins to zero. Does this
help? If you resize a text box with only one line of text the text is cut off.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"McPop" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:14:25 +0100, Ed Bennett
wrote:

McPop wrote:
Those are the settings. Unfortunately it looks and prints like double
spacing. The cursor is the same large size.
If I, Select All, Clear Formatting, nothing happens. Same with Normal.

What font are you using?

Verdana, but I have the same results with all fonts.
Right now, I have a single text box containing a 14 point word. I
cannot see anything except the lower 20% of the word with a very large
space below. The word is pushed up into the top of the text box. The
cursor size matches the font size and can be seen the same way.
My version is 2002, so I don't see the baseline option, although
that sounds like the problem.
Why does "Job Title" correct the problem?

Have you turned on alignment to Baseline Guides on? (Publisher 2003 only)

Thanks Mary,
Found the problem. My after paragraph line spacing somehow was changed
to 9. That pushed everything right out the top. Must have been the
dog. Thanks to you and Ed for posting.
Mac

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:37:11 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote:

Format the text box differently, right-click the text box, format text box, set
the vertical alignment to middle, change the text box margins to zero. Does this
help? If you resize a text box with only one line of text the text is cut off.