Can I set up a double space default between paragraphs on MS Word?

[Mobi]

There may be a simple solution to this and if so please put me out of my misery.

My problem is that every time I draft something out in Word to be cut and pasted onto a website form (such as Thai Visa), I find that all the spaces between paragraphs disappear. The only way to fix the problem is to double space between paras – i.e. hit the return key twice.

 

It doesn't matter how wide I make a single space, it still disappears on a cut and paste on just about any  website.

 

Is there any way to set my Word default so that it double-spaces automatically between paragraphs? I have searched and cannot find a way.

 

Is my only solution to hit the return key twice or am I missing something?

 

Thanks for any advice on this.

 

Mobi

[Maestro]

Pressing the return key twice is the only solution, as far as I know.

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[Digitalbanana]

15 hours ago, Mobi said:

– i.e. hit the return key twice.

 

You can use the paragraph spacing function of Word to do it. The following vid explains how to do it all.

 

 

[Mobi]

2 hours ago, Digitalbanana said:

 

You can use the paragraph spacing function of Word to do it. The following vid explains how to do it all.

 

 

 

 No.... it doesn't solve the problem.

 

If you read my OP carefully, you will note that I said:

 

" It doesn't matter how wide I make a single space, it still disappears on a cut and paste on just about any  website. "

 

I am fully conversant on how to set spaces between paragraphs and how to make them wider or thinner, but this is NOT the point.  For the spacing between paragraphs to remain when cutting and pasting onto a website, there has to be TWO spaces - i.e. a double space, which is created by hitting the return key twice. I am looking for a way to avoid having to hit the key twice after each paragraph, as I keep forgetting and in long documents it can become quite a hassle - e.g. when I am writing a long movie review for IMDb.

 

Thanks anyway for trying to help..

[Digitalbanana]

Sorry I misread your o/p as you said.

 

You can save the Word doc with formatted paragraphs as a temporary html file, which you can then open  with your web browser and copy paste into a web form so that the spaces between paragraphs are displayed.

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

The underlying problem:

the "form" (program) that you paste the text to does not retain the formatting that is in the Word copy.

If there is no option to paste with formatting you have little chance with copy/paste.

 

For illustration see the picture below.

On the left is the source (OpenOfficeWriter) with the second group of lines formatted with 0.5cm space below paragraph.

In the middle you see the paste result in "Wordpad" a simple Windows editor with formatting capabilities.

On the right you see the paste result in notepad.exe the age old basic Windows editor without formatting capabilities.

 

What I don't understand: my paste result to the thaivisa edit field looks like this (at least line spacing is there):

 

This is line 1

This is line 2

This is line 3

 

This is line 1

This is line 2

This is line 3

 

 

Try copy/paste from your word document to "wordpad" in Windows.

If the problem exists there then something is "wrong" with the word doc source or the method of copying (some programs allow copy/paste with or without formatting).

[Chicog]

Can't you just use Paragraph spacing or is that stating the obvious?

 

Ah OK, I see above that you've tried that.

Maybe use find and replace when you've finished editing and replace the line ends with two line ends?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2016 by Chicog

[Mobi]

6 hours ago, Digitalbanana said:

Sorry I misread your o/p as you said.

 

You can save the Word doc with formatted paragraphs as a temporary html file, which you can then open  with your web browser and copy paste into a web form so that the spaces between paragraphs are displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

You're a genius - it works!

 

I just tested it twice with 2 different word docs. Saved them as  web pages and them copied and pasted the result onto Thai Visa reply doc, checked preview  and the para spaces are all there.

 

Probably not worth the hassle for a short document but will be great with long texts that contain multiple paragraphs.

 

Many thanks,

 

Mobi