The single most annoying computer-related problem I have had over the years is the difficulty in formatting text. I once spent the better part of a day re-typing my husband's resume over and over again just to get the bullet points to line up. It made me long for the days of typewriters and carriage returns that went thwack! when you hit them.
And why on earth is it so hard to single-space something?
Based on the number of questions I get, I know I'm not the only one irritated by this. It's not just Microsoft Word documents either. A lot of web-based text editors have similar issues, including email programs.
So here's a quick tip that will save you a lot of time when you're either in a hurry or just not in the mood to figure out the "right" way to create a piece of single-spaced text:
Instead of hitting "enter" use "shift-enter". Works almost all the time.
I know it may not be the best thing to do all the time, something to do with hard-returns and paragraph breaks versus line breaks, yak, yak, yak. But for most casual uses it's just fine. Shift-enter. Done