Thread: [Solved] Paragraph (carriage) return font size
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Old 12-28-2011, 01:20 PM
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Hi revrossreddick,

You really shouldn't be inserting empty paragraphs to achieve the desired spacing.

What you should be doing is using different paragraph Styles (eg one for headings, another for body text, another for bullets) that provide a pre-defined amount of space before & after each paragraph of a given Style (eg 6pt before & after for a normal paragraph, 6pt after for a bullteded paragraph), as well as the font type & size (+ italics, bold etc), the amount of indenting, left & right margins and the line spacing within each paragraph (you might prefer single line spacing instead of Word's default 1.15 lines).

Then, if you need to adjust the spacing to make the content take more, or less, room, simply modifying the Styles will update all paragraphs of that Style consistently.

FWIW, you can change just the paragrapgh breaks, via Find/Replace, where:
Find = ^p
Replace = ^&
and you set the replacement point size to whatever you want.
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