How can i set my Page Text to be single spaced?

[teggenberger]

After i create a new page I paste single-spaced text (paragraph) from notepad.

The text somehow gets pasted as what appears to be 'double-spaced'. This takes up too much room on the page.

Shouldn't there be a formatting option to adjust the line spacing?

For example, 'select' multiple lines of text, then set that selection (and only that selection) to a desired line spacing.

Can someone suggest a fix? 

I'm aware of the 'Shift-Enter' option but i don't want to have to do that for each line of a large text block.

Thanks.

[Bill Bailey · Accepted solution]

In short, no.  This is philosophical difference in that Confluence being HTML based and not a word processor. And Confluence chose to have items like spacing set by CSS at the global/space level. The editor just doesn't support this kind of local formatting control.

My suspicion is that you are pasting in carriage returns at the end of each line (probably </br>). 

If you could paste a snippet of the page code (from the storage view - ... -> View Storage Format). Then we can see what is actually getting pasted into your doc.

[teggenberger]

Thank Bill, you were correct, look like some </br> formatting.