Although Microsoft Word adjusts the sentence and word spacing automatically when you paste something, it doesn’t adjust the same for the entire paragraphs.

Older versions of Word buried line-spacing settings inside formatting menus, but in Word 2007 and 2010, they're hiding in plain sight.

Phil Frye wrote, “I somehow changed the spacing between lines in Microsoft Word. Instead of single-spacing there is now double-spacing and it won’t allow me to move the cursor up to the empty ...

If you need to remove extra white double-spaces between words or paragraphs in Word, then follow the steps laid down in this post.

You can double space in Word for an entire document or selected paragraphs to increase the amount of space between your lines of text.