A document assembled from several sources usually ends up with different line spacing in every paragraph. The natural reaction is to put the cursor in the gap and press Backspace, which merges the two paragraphs instead of closing the gap. That is the clue: the gap is not an empty line. It is a spacing setting on the paragraph.
TL;DR: Ctrl + A, then Home > Line Spacing > 1.15.
Steps
- Press
Ctrl + Ato select the whole document. - On the Home tab, open the Line and Paragraph Spacing button.
- Choose 1.15. Every paragraph now uses the same line spacing.
If there is still extra room between paragraphs, open the same button again and choose Remove Space After Paragraph. That clears the paragraph spacing that came along with pasted text.
I checked this in the free Word for the web with the Korean interface. The English menu names above may be worded slightly differently in your version.
Why selecting everything first
Pasted paragraphs each carry their own formatting. Fixing them one at a time works, but it is easy to miss one in a long document. Applying the setting to the whole selection resets them all in one step, and any paragraph you want to keep different can be adjusted afterwards.
Written with AI assistance. The steps were tested by hand before publishing.
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