How can I remove double spaced lines?

[abrogard]

I got sent a document which makes much use of space and I want to squash it down so’s I can print a shorter doc.
But I can’t find how to do it.
Is there are place where after selecting a page or a para or whatever we can see what its settings are?
If there is then when asking questions like this I could just cut and paste it to show you.

Failing that here’s a screenshot. If I go to the end of a line and delete it doesn’t close the lines up as it would if it were all single spaced but they’d done two CR. Instead it eliminates all intervening space and appends the next line directly where I pressed delete.

[anon73440385]

Check View -> Formatting Marks to get any visual indication what you deal with. May this are carriage returns (CR), paragraph spacing or may be empty paragraphs. Nobody can see that from the screenshot. but from you description, I’d assume that these are spacing setting within the paragraph definitions being used.

[Hagar_Delest]

There may be some direct formatting. So the quickest IMHO is to select all and go to Format > Paragraph and in the Indents & Spacing tab, change the Above/Below paragraph values in the Spacing section. And/or change the Line Spacing settings.

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[abrogard]

I think that’s done it. Thanks guys. I set the space below paras to zero on a selected portion of the text and it seemed to come right.
I switched on formatting marks and I played some more and I found lots of place where there were two para marks between the end of the last line and the beginning of the next.
So I’m pretty vague and confused, as usual, but I feel the answer was a mixture of the two things: space below paras (should that normally be positive integer or is zero normal?) and extra paras - though the extra paras thing doesn’t explain how one ‘delete’ at the end of a line would immediately concatenate the next line from (presumably, if that was the prob) two paras below.
Like I said. I’m uncertain, confused. Habitually.
But by messing around with those two things I can get what I want and over time I’ll see the light, know what I’m doing.
Thanks.

[Hagar_Delest]

It may come from a messy source with a mixture of extra paragraphs and wide spacing above/below paragraph. In such, cas, you can select all, hit Ctrl+M to reset the formatting and you’ll see the extra lines. Then use styles to set the correct spacing. Blank paragraphs should be avoided because they can lead to unaesthetic spaces at top of pages.