


Here's the same paragraph & equation with spacing set to "At least 12pt": (BTW, these instructions are for Word 2010, and may vary slightly for other versions, but the same basic procedure will work in any version of Word.) You can do this for every paragraph that uses the Normal style, but that will probably make a change the journal doesn't want, so it's best to just change the paragraphs you need to. Change this to At least 12pt (setting it to Single will probably work just as well). You'll notice in the Spacing section, the Line spacing is set to Exactly 12.2pt. To change it, in the Paragraph group of the Home tab, click the "dialog box launcher" (that's the small triangle in the lower-right corner of some groups). The way around this is to leave the paragraph spacing set to this value except for paragraphs where it cuts off part of the equation. The trouble comes when you put something larger than 10pt - an equation for example - into the paragraph or into a new paragraph. In your template, for example, whoever designed the template set the paragraph line spacing to be 12.2pt - which is normal for 10pt text, which the template uses. This is a fairly common occurrence in Word - the page/template designer sets the paragraph leading (the vertical distance from one line in a paragraph to the other) to an exact point value, rather than simply Single, which is the default.
