It's not just you. At present the advanced formatting does little more than frustrate me . I like to do a bit of concrete or form poetry and an occasional parallel poem but every time I try it comes out double spaced which dilutes it. Perhaps someone more technically inclined can help you out............stan

Select text and hit Ctrl B for Bold
Select text and hit Ctrl I for Italics

    STAN- it should preserve single spacing when copy and pasting, if typing in use Shift/Enter instead of just Enter for single spacing.

In general if Advanced Formatting is selected it will preserve MS Word formatting when you copy and paste.

N.B. Always select Advanced Formatting BEFORE typing or copying in text.

thanks weirdelf. that was just what i was looking for.

I'll see if this works on my next free verse. Thanks