How to prevent Microsoft Word from adding default paragraph spacing.

[tatsuyaParticipant]

I created a simple docx file named HelloWorld.docx using Open XML 2.5.
Initially, HelloWorld.docx doesn’t contain styles.xml.

However, after resaving HelloWorld.docx using Microsoft Word 2010,
styles.xml is added to HelloWorld.docx, and it contains w:spacing as follows.

<w:docDefaults>
  <w:pPrDefault>
    <w:pPr>
      <w:spacing w:after="200" w:line="276" w:lineRule="auto" />
    </w:pPr>
  </w:pPrDefault>
<w/:docDefaults>

How do I prevent Microsoft Word from adding w:spacing when resaving a docx file?

I suspected Normal.dot and removed such default spacing from Normal.dot but it didn’t help.

[Eric WhiteKeymaster]

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.

[tatsuyaParticipant]

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>

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