When creating new forms from INFOPATH and uploading to our internal site or creating simple homepage sites in the actual Sharepoint 2013 / Office 365 program -- it seems as though my RTE is defaulted to double space. How can I change this default to single space permanently? I know the basic solution is to hit 'SHIFT+ENTER' but I want to change the default to single space.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

• Moved by Hemendra AgrawalMVP 2 hours 11 minutes ago SP 2013

Hi joshuarupp,

As your description, my understanding is that there is a double space when you press "Enter" in Rich Text Box from an InfoPath form.

I could reproduce this issue. It seems to be by default for Rich Text. As you said, one workaround was using "SHIFT+ENTER".

If you want to change the default to single space, I am afriad, you are unable to do it. As a workaround, you can use Text Box, then set it Multi-line in the Text Box properties.

Thanks,

Wendy

Even in the body of new pages being built out on our server, all paragraphs are double spaced. Why would this be the case. It can't be sensible to have double space paragraphs in areas where users are inputting large amounts of information. That doesn't make any sense to me.

Hi joshuarupp,

The Enter key is used for "new paragraph." The Shift-Enter combination is used for "new line, not new paragraph." It is about hard return and soft return. We cannot change this behaviour in SharePoint.

More information:

http://word.tips.net/T000170_Understanding_Hard_and_Soft_Returns.html

Thanks,

Wendy

I guess I am confused why this is only in Rich Media and not in regular text boxes?

Hi,

Rich Text is using HTML format, this styled text allows for the addition of formatting, such as font sizes and colors, bolding, italics.

Regular text boxes are textual material, it doesn't contain formatting, only line breaks and spacing.

Thanks,

Wendy