If you’ve upgraded to one of the ribbon-interface versions of Microsoft Office recently, you may have noticed that every new document you create (as opposed to editing or making new documents from earlier ones) has this weird, more open line spacing. What’s the story? Well, it seems that Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, decided that since we’re all posting documents on the Interwebs, we could all do with a more online-friendly line spacing scheme. So they made line spacing in the Normal template 1.15 instead of 1. The default paragraph settings for Word 2010 Um no. If you want to change the default back to that single line spacing that looks good on paper, then here’s what you do: • On the home tab of the ribbon, find the Styles section (on the right).

The document should be based on the Normal template. That’s not difficult. Once the document is up, go to the Home tab. In the Styles section, right-click the Normal box. If you don’t see. For example, Normal.dot is the master template from which all Word documents are created. It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although normal.dot is already set with certain defaults, the user can change normal.dot to new defaults. By Dan Gookin. Word 2010 documents have templates like people have last names. Mostly, the Word documents are born with their templates. You either choose the template when the document is first created or just create a new document, in which case, the NORMAL.DOTM template is used.

Yodot Mac File Recovery. One of the prime factors that cause Word file to freeze is corruption of Word’s Normal Template. This will eventually lead to.

You’ll see a drop-down called Change Styles. Click it, then choose Style Set, then click on Word 2003 (which will change the default styles for that document to the ones where Normal paragraphs have single spacing with no extra space after paragraphs.