I couldn't post a sample because when I copied and pasted a couple of the offending paragraphs the spacing on them was just fine when pasted into a new doc. However, I did go into Page Set-Up and found that the Vertical Alignment was set at Justified (which the document in general is set at). When I changed it to Top, the spacing difficulties did disappear. I don't understand that at all, but at least it worked. Thanks so much!