How to prevent Microsoft Word from adding default paragraph spacing.

[Eric White]

You cannot prevent Microsoft Word from doing this.

Instead, I recommend that when you generate the document, create a styles part and put the docDefaults in it, with the default paragraph and run properties that you want for your document.

[tatsuya]

Thank you very much for the advice, which solved my problem.

I wrote the following code.

private static void Main()
{
    using (var wd = WordprocessingDocument.Create("HelloWorld.docx", WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
    {
        var mdp = wd.AddMainDocumentPart();

        AddStyleDefinitionPart(mdp);
        AddParagraphPropertiesDefault(mdp.StyleDefinitionsPart);

        mdp.Document = new Document(new Body());
        mdp.Document.Body.AppendChild(new Paragraph(new Run(new Text("Hello"))));
        mdp.Document.Body.AppendChild(new Paragraph(new Run(new Text("World"))));

        mdp.Document.Save();
        wd.Close();
    }
}

private static void AddStyleDefinitionPart(OpenXmlPartContainer oxpc)
{
    new Styles().Save(oxpc.AddNewPart<StyleDefinitionsPart>());
}

private static void AddParagraphPropertiesDefault(StylesPart sp)
{
    sp.Styles = new Styles(new DocDefaults(new ParagraphPropertiesDefault()));
}

Now, even after opening and resaving HelloWorld.docx using Microsoft Word,
styles.xml remains the same as follows without w:spacing in it.

<w:styles xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main">
  <w:docDefaults>
    <w:pPrDefault />
  </w:docDefaults>
</w:styles>

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by tatsuya.

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