How to make MS Word single-space all the time

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How to make MS Word single-space all the time

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Feb 17, 2020

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It’s one of the big frustrations with MS Word – you hit the Enter key, and the next line in your document is a DOUBLE space down from the last line. There are two ways to fix this. You know what I’m talking about. You open a new blank document and start typing [...] Read more »Download Ashford for WordPress

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