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Some people are in the double-Enter habit. That is, you press Enter-Enter to end a paragraph, when all Word really needs is a single Enter. It's a similar disorder to pressing Spacebar-Spacebar after a period — an utterly useless affliction in the age of modern word processing, an unnecessary legacy of the typewriter age. In Word, committing such a sin is like writing down your stutter.
If you want your paragraphs to have some padding around them you need to tell Word to stick some space around its paragraphs. Here's how:
Position the toothpick cursor in the paragraph you want more air around, or mark a block of paragraphs to affect them all.
The air can be either above or below the paragraph.
Choose Format, Paragraph.
The Paragraph dialog box appears.
Make sure that the Indents and Spacing panel is forward. (Click that panel's tab or press Alt+I, if it isn't forward already.)
You want to concentrate on the area that says Spacing.
To add space before a paragraph, enter a value in the Before box.
This is space that automatically cushions stuff above the paragraph.
To add space after a paragraph, enter a value in the After box.
This is space that comes below the paragraph.
Click OK.
The paragraph (or paragraphs) now has extra spacing.
For example, to add space after every paragraph — just like pressing the Enter key twice — specify 12 pt in the After box in Step 4. The value 12 pt means that there will be just about one blank line after the paragraph.
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