Title: Formatting paragraphs
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Formatting paragraphs

 *  [rowanhawke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rowanhawke/)
 * (@rowanhawke)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-paragraphs/)
 * This is so simple it is going to sound silly. But how come when I press enter
   it goes two lines down instead of one and where can I change this? I am trying
   to post poetry to my site and while it is nice in prose for the paragraphs to
   have an open line between them, it doesn’t make sense for poetry to be double
   spaced. Can I change the enter key to be a single space?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-paragraphs/#post-619427)
 * [http://wordpress.org/search/shift%2Benter?forums=1](http://wordpress.org/search/shift%2Benter?forums=1)
   (
   via a “simple” search)

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 * [double space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/double-space/)
 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [paragraph](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paragraph/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-paragraphs/#post-619427)
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