Is there a way to reduce the amount of white space?

[Ms. Toad]

4. Agree this is a need.

Now that virtually all screens are wide format, it reduces the height relative to the width - so the smaller the screen, the bigger the problem. So when space is added after each line, and the line spacing is greater than 1 line, it eats up the available height (i.e. reading space) very quickly. So I'm having to scroll even in the middle of relatively short posts.

I always have to change the settings each time I set up a new version of Word (to remove the default 8pt space after each line, and to reduce the default line spacing to 1 space). Drives me nuts - and here, I can't even go in and change the default settings.