Is Microsoft Skipping Windows 9

How do I fix my Microsoft Word? It is skipping a line between paragraphs and I don't know why?

Highlight/Select the whole document then right click and choose paragraph and line spacing, then select the spacing that you want. should fix it, good luck!

Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9?

Think of Win 8.1 as being Win 9. The real reason that they skipped naming it 9 is to distance themselves of the failure of Win 8 in the public mind. This was a marketing move not a technical one. "Windows 10 - A 10 is better than 8." "Which score would you like ? 8 or 10." Pay attention to the new Win 10 commercials when they come out.It's all marketing.

So what ever happened to Windows 9? Microsoft is already advertising Windows 10, and we are on 8. Where is 9?

You might be surprised to learn than Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not version numbers but brand names. Windows 7 is version 6.1, Windows 8 is 6.2, and 8.1 is version 6.3.

Windows 10 with be the rare occasion where the brand name and the version number coincide.

Why did Microsoft skip 9?

Microsoft explained that the forthcoming update was so great that it warranted a '10' moniker. In other words, just as OS X marked a new beginning for the Mac, Microsoft may too believe that Windows 10 will mark a new chapter in the history of Windows. HOWEVER, according to Reddit user cranbourne, Microsoft decided to forgo Windows 9 on account of legacy code from third-party apps running checks for Windows 9x.

Internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that. It's almost like Microsoft's version of Y2K.

But perhaps we should just take this all with a grain of salt. After all, another Reddit commentor quipped, "You're talking about the same company that went from Xbox 360 to Xbox One."

Why does Microsoft Word skip a line? HELP!?

That sounds like Widow and Orphan control. A widow is the last line of a paragraph alone at the top of a page. An orphan is the reverse: a single line on the first page followed by the rest of the paragraph on the next.

Typesetters apparently consider those isolated lines uglier than a chunk of blank space at the bottom of a page. Go figure.

To fix it, do this:

1. Click in an affected paragraph.
2. Click the Home tab on the Ribbon.
3. Click the arrow in the lower right corner of the Styles section.
4. The style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it. You may have to scroll down to find it.
5. Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.
6. Select Modify from the list box.
7. Click the Format button and select Paragraph.
8. On the Line and Page Breaks tab, clear the Widow/Orphan Control checkbox.
9. Click OK.
10. If you want this to carry forward to other documents based on the template this one is based on, click the radio button for New Documents Based On This Template.
11. OK out of everything.

All paragraphs in the document with that style should adjust themselves.

When you close your document, you may see a warning message asking if you want to save the changes to Normal.dotx. This is an anti-virus measure, intended to alert you that something has changed in Normal.dotx. In this case, you made the change, so you want to accept it.

That should do it.

I do not Microsoft Word to skip a line?

That's called double-spacing. Do this: 1. Select all the text you want double-spaced. (CTRL/A will select the entire document.) 2. Right-click in the selection and select Paragraph from the pop-up menu. 3. Set the Line Spacing list box to Double. 4. Click OK. The text will now be double-spaced, and so will any text you add in that region. Hope that helps.