ChTTay Posted August 25, 2014 at 02:38 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 02:38 AM Let me explain ... I am writing a guide for my school in English. However, when I mention things in Beijing I am writing the name in English then the Chinese in brackets after that. When I first write it, the formatting doesn't change. The spacing between whole lines is normal. However, when I close microsoft word and open it again, it has automatically formatted the paragraphs. Now, any line with Chinese in it has a huge gap above and below it. I have tried looking at the formatting (by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+8 ) but there didn't seem to be anything there. Also had a play around with paragraph settings. No luck. I am using Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Word. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Example: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZhangJiang Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:27 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:27 AM I think one way is try changing the font of the Chinese. The current one seems to be 微软雅黑, which has a larger line spacing. You can also manually set the line spacing to fixed value, which may need a little adjustment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members InternetWarrior67 Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:35 AM New Members Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:35 AM Sounds like a microsoft word problem. Try a different text editor, such as Notepad or Wordpad, which you should have installed by default. Or try something like Notepad++. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:46 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 03:46 AM Try a different text editor Sometimes there is a need to use a word processor rather than a text editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted August 25, 2014 at 04:00 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 04:00 AM ZhangJiang has the correct answer. You need to set line spacing to a fixed value. You can do this by modifying the style and going to the format->paragraph dialog box. From there, there is a drop down box called 'Line spacing'. Choose the option 'Exactly' and then fiddle with the point size to get what you want. 18pt seems to work well for me in a quick test. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChTTay Posted August 25, 2014 at 05:25 AM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 at 05:25 AM Thanks, that sorted the issue right away. Chinese-Forums is officially better than Baidu and Bing search engines! ...also, yes, I really needed to use MS Word for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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