Reoving Space between paragraphs

[Guest Sammycolt]

Is there a way to remove or reduce the space between paragraphs?

[BronxWench]

It depends largely on how you're inputting the stories.

If you are writing in Word, you can use the No Spacing style to remove those extra lines between paragraphs in your document. It will look impossibly awkward without spaces between paragraphs, but when you post the story by pasting it into the Rich Text Editor, it should come out fine.

The other option is to manually delete them in the Rich Text Editor. They will show up there when you paste the story initially. It's a bit time consuming to remove them like that, but again, once you have the text looking the way you want in the RTE, it should appear that way in the archive as well.

If you write in LibreOffice or OpenOffice, I believe you can emulate the No Spacing style that Word uses.

[GeorgeGlass]

If you're using Word, the easy way to deal with this problem is to use Find/Replace to replace every paragraph break with a manual line break before you paste the text into the box to upload. For some reason, AFF's text editor always puts a space after a paragraph that ends with a paragraph break, but it won't do that with a manual line break.

[GeorgeGlass]

I now do the "find paragraph marks and replace them with manual line breaks" thing so often that I decided to make a macro for it. In case any folks here would like to have it, here's the code:

Sub ParaToLineBr()
'
' ParaToLineBr Macro
'
'
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^p"
.Replacement.Text = "^l"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

And here's a webpage with instructions for installing macros: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

[Melrick]

Nice one, good idea.