When you work in a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document, you may notice that there is more space between lines of a paragraph and more space between paragraphs than in earlier versions of Microsoft Word.

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This behavior may occur because the default line spacing and the default paragraph spacing has been increased in Word 2007 to provide better readability.

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To work around this behavior in Word 2007 so that the line spacing and paragraph spacing are the same as in earlier versions of Word, change the Style Set option.

To do this, follow these steps:

1.	Click the Home tab.
2.	Click Change Styles in the Styles group, point to Style Set, and then click the style set that you want to use. To change the default formatting of your document, such as the line spacing and paragraph spacing, to the default formatting that is used in earlier versions of Word, click Word 2003.
3.	To set the style set as the default style set in Word 2007, click Change Styles in the Styles group, and then click Set as Default.

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The following table lists the default line spacing and default paragraph spacing for Word 2007 and for earlier versions of Microsoft Word.

Note Some language versions of Word 2007 may have the same default line spacing and the same default paragraph spacing as earlier versions of Word.

Spacing option	Word 2007	Word 2003 and earlier versions of Word
After	14 px	0 pt
Line spacing	Multiple	Single
At	1.15	blank

Note To view the line spacing and paragraph spacing options, right-click a paragraph, and then click Paragraph.

For more information about how to adjust the line spacing in Word 2007, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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