Hi;
My elderly dad is still running MS Word 2000. He is a language translator.


We have been quite frustrated attempting to change the default paragraph spacing for the normal style.
The spacing seems to default to insert space above and below each line which is started with hitting the enter key (new paragraph).
We can remove the space by selecting the paragraph(s) or the entire document and going to the paragraph format tab, but each time a new document is started, or even when a new page is added to the current document, the paragraph spacing returns to the default.


I did a Google search, and apparently I need to change the paragraph settings in the Style that he is using. So, if this is the 'normal' style, then I would go to styles and make the changed there?
But making changes to the normal style is going to cause changes in other styles, which use the normal style (trickle down).
I don't really think that would be a problem, since my dad never changes the styles anyway. But if I want to do it right, would I just create a custom style, based on the normal style, make the changes to it, and then set that custom style as the default for all documents?


On my own PC (Windows 7), I use Office 2010, and I see that when I open the paragraph dialog, there is a button at the bottom to make the settings default. But this button is not available for paragraph formatting in Word 2000.


I realize that Word 2000 is almost 20 years old, but my dad is too old to learn a completely new version of Word. Besides that, his computer is running XP and doesn't have enough "horsepower" to run a newer OS or version of Word.


Any suggestions?
Thanks
Ultrarunner