I often need to use 1.5-line spacing in Word 2000. Unfortunately, Word always defaults to single-line spacing. How do I change it?
You can set the default line spacing in Normal.dot, the template used for new documents. In Word 2000, choose Tools | Options and click on the File Locations tab. Find User templates in the listits folder location will probably be displayed in a useless compressed format such as C:\...\Microsoft\Templates.
Double-click on that list item to bring up the Modify Location dialog. Most likely you still won't be able to see the entire location, but if you press Ctrl-C as soon as the dialog appears, the location will be copied to the Clipboard. Press the Esc key twice to close the Modify Location and Options dialogs.
Now choose Open from the File menu, click in the File name: box, and press Ctrl-V to paste the location from the Clipboard. You'll find Normal.dot in the file list. Open it. Select Paragraph from the Format menu, choose 1.5 lines in the Line spacing: list, and click on OK. From now on, when you create a new document, its line spacing will default to 1.5.