What version of Word are you using? When I look under Format…Styles at the Normal style in the Example.doc in Word 2000, I do not see the information about “(Asian) Chinese (PRC)” (the rest of the entry is the same as you have – and the 10.5 pt is puzzling, because Word thinks it is 12 pt). Jscher2000, I really appreciate this information. I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions. Regardless, I can’t seem to find any way of correcting the problem. My conjecture is that the default for single space in Times New Roman in the Asian version of Word involves larger leading than for the US version of Word. I have observed the increased leading coming from countries using the Asian versions of Word, but generally not from European or Middle Eastern versions. No amount of changing styles nor any of the options I’ve tried under Tools…Options…Compatibility nor any of the options under Format…Font or Format…paragraph seem to have any effect on this. Unfortunately, this second method doesn’t always work. The second method is to copy “chunks” of text from the foreign Word document into a new US Word document, being careful not to copy too much (less than a page long seems to be the maximum that works) and being careful not to copy the space (and thus the hidden formatting information) at the end of the last paragraph (copying too much or copying that hidden formatting information will cause the wider leading to show up in the new document). The first is to save the Word document as text (e.g., MS-DOS text), and then import it back into a new Word document and reapply all of the formatting (which, for a document with a lot of equations and formatting, is a real pain!). I have found only two ways I can get the leading to be set back to the US Word leading. I have tried changing all of the settings I can find to get the leading to match the US leading, without success. As noted, this seems to happen most often with documents from Asian countries. To be specific, I often receive Word documents from countries outside the US in which the font is Times New Roman, 12 pt, with Paragraph spacing Before and After set to 0 pt and Line spacing set to single, but in which the actual line spacing (the leading) is a significant fraction of a point larger than for the same text with the same settings in a US version of Word. Quite commonly, I will receive a Word document, most usually from an Asian country, in which the leading (the spacing between lines) is significantly greater that the standard single line spacing in the American version of Word. I’m Editor-in-Chief of an international scientific publication. I’m using Word 2000 in Office 2000, but I have to reason to believe that the same problem exists in later versions of Word.
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