The Amazing Microsoft Office 2007 / 2010 Anoyance

This will be my first official  Blog Tip!!


If you are use Microsoft Office  user, you may find this little tip very useful.  In Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 Microsoft changed how the Enter Key functions.

In earlier versions of MS Office when you hit the enter key the cursor would advance to the next line. But in Office 2007 and 2010 when you hit the enter key, the cursor advances two lines.

This seems to be a very popular annoyance to everyone I talk to.  But guess what!  I can show you how to change this, so that when you hit your enter key, it will function the same as it did in earlier versions of office.

there are two ways to fix this annoyance

Method 1

Step 1.    Open up your Microsoft Word program and click on the "HOME" tab

Step 2. To the far right of the home tab you should see the icon  "Change Styles".  Click on the icon and a menu will drop down.  Now put your mouse over Style Set, another menu will drop down.  You should see Word 2003 in the menu.  Put your mouse over Word 2003 and left click.

That's it!  When you hit the Enter key now, it should only advance 1 line at a time, instead of 2.

Method 2

Method 2 in my opinion is much easier to do, and would be my method of choice.

Step 1 - Open Microsoft Word and click on the Page Layout tab.  About mid way in the page layout bar you should see Indent and Spacing.  Under spacing there is an option called After, and it might have a number  like 6 pt or 12pt ( You don't see this, because I have mine already changed.)  Click on the down arrow in the box until is says 0 pt

That's it!  Your Enter key will now function just as it did in Earlier versions of MS Office.

Enjoy