Geek Tip #2
February 10, 2008 by Kate Olson
Ok, here’s something I learned this weekend that is going to make my life MUCH easier when composing and editing blog posts and anything in moodle. (Very possible that everyone else in the world already knew this and I’m the last to know, but that’s ok. We all have to learn sometime!) Thanks much to Ellen Paxton of Professional Learning Board for teaching me this during a very late-night Saturday work session 
This tip deals with web document composing. I have been frustrated when typing blog posts and MANY things in moodle because every time I press “enter” after a line, I end up with a double-space. Now, I’m coming from heavy Microsoft Word use and teaching about single, double, and 1.5 line spacing (in business ed classes), so this is new to me. I’m used to being able to type my text and then go back and do just about anything with the formatting toolbar or keyboard shortcuts, so editing and composing online has been a bit difficult. It’s a whole new world to me! Makes me wonder if teaching all of the intricate formatting in Word, etc is becoming a thing of the past with the numerous options available online today? I hope not, I’m still kind of partial to Word for anything more than simple text input - old habits die hard :-) I’m all for new things, but I hate letting go of the old!
Anyway, I learned that in moodle and edublogs, to achieve a single-spaced line, I need to press SHIFT + Enter instead of just pressing Enter. Just pressing Enter gives me a double-spaced line and that’s not appropriate for all of the instances in which I choose to start a new line. Now, that may seem exceedingly simple and small (and possibly not important) to many people, but I get very into the vertical alignment and appearance of documents and I really don’t like publishing anything to the web without proper appearance. This tip helped me greatly!
I’m working on learning more HTML to make things even more customized, but until then, my new knowledge of finally being able to do “single spacing” in moodle and edublogs is making me smile
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You know, I didn’t know this either! My students will also appreciate this information…we’ve been struggling with this on, I think, wikispaces. Maybe it was something else. Not sure right now, but now I know what to try when this issue comes up again!
Thanks for posting!
Great tip! I had just been struggling with this recently. I had no idea, but now I do!