I copied a text from a web page and pasted it into Word.
Next, I went to format/paragraph/single space.
Now, I have some text single spaced, with about 1/8 of an inch between the lines.
However, further down the page, there is some text that is about 1 inch between the lines. I went back to format/et al, and apparently this is single space as well.
Two questions:
Try pasting what you copied into Notepad first, with or without wordwrap (I can’t remember which), and then copying from Notepad to Word.
Try setting it to “0 pts before, 0 pts after” over the entire sample of text too, since the space before/after paragraph settings might also affect space between lines, especially if there’s a carriage return betwen them.
When you paste into Word, be sure to do a Paste Special, Unformatted Text. That should do it.
What nivlac said. Note that most web pages are set up with blank paragraphs between text paragraphs. If you use space-before-and/or-after in your formatting, you want to clean out those out. Replace ^p^p with ^p.
A while ago, I assigned a paste:unformatted macro to ctrl+v. I highly recommend doing the same.