How do I get rid of 1.5 line spaces in gmail?

Why not type it up in notepad and copy-paste. I’d switch back to the old version anyways, the new one sucks.

XOIIO: i tried your suggestion and everything pasted as 1.5 lines of whitespace instead of 1 line of whitespace… I am trying to compose an single-spaced email

also, when I say 1.5 I am estimating… might be 1.8 or something other than 1.5 but definitely not single-spaced

Hmm, let me see if I can find something, but is it doing this in the old look?

Yes, it does this in the old look… although I agree NEW LOOK IS TERRIBLE. I like the old look MUCH better. I hate image-based-buttons instead of text-based. What does the button which looks like an elbow do? How about the one like an upside down party hat? Is ENGLISH too terrible that we must switch to crypto-gram based buttons?

This should help.

Thank you for pointing out this thread. It was very helpful. Google needs to get their act together and fix this line-spacing-microsoft-esque behavior.

I guess the only real answer is to switch to plain text. Others are correct:
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This behavior is really insane ~ like when MS Word gets ridiculously retarded and starts re-formatting in random ways to “help” you out.

Although you can switch select area between Plain Text & Rich Text to lose the formatting.
You also lose whatever formatting was pasted in as well…
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Think I’ve solved this problem!

1) If you highlight the text which has the automatic spacing
2) then press the indent button (which moves the text to the right)
3) then press the other indent button (which moves the text back to the left)

then it should work.

absdotcom, thank you very much for your tip. This was driving me batty.

An easy solution is to send the email to your gmail from yahoo. Yahoo doesn’t have this problem.

absdotcom, please post your solution in the Gmail forums. It deserves to be better known!