Created attachment 200295 [details] forum-mso-de-125863.docx: the example document In this document, the paragraphs should not be "separated" from each other. This is about as simple as you can get. There is no paragraph direct properties (no w:pPr) and no style assigned (so it should inherit from "Normal" - which looks fairly standard to me). <w:style w:type="paragraph" w:default="1" w:styleId="Standard"> <w:name w:val="Normal"/> <w:pPr> <w:spacing w:line="264" w:lineRule="auto"/> # no w:after="xxx" defined </w:pPr> </w:style> There also are no DocDefaults <w:pPrDefault/> entries, so I'm not sure where the 0.35 cm of below spacing in the default paragraph style are coming from. It isn't a LO default for new ODT documents... This started in LO 3.6.