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Gayatri Ohri
Brass Contributor
Nov 03, 2020

Please help! ALL Modern pages impacted | SharePoint spacing issue

There have been spacing issues happening tenant-wide on all modern pages since yesterday. Not sure if Microsoft released a CSS patch? Looks fine in Edit mode but all content gets squished together a...
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Bryce McMillan's avatar
Bryce McMillan
Iron Contributor
Jun 24, 2021

+1 from a University in Australia. This really is making content undesirable to read right now.
Mark-Kashman- any further word from the teams looking after this?

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Bruno Aleixo
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Jun 24, 2021

If anyone has raised a support ticket about this can you please send me the number on a private message ?

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    Bryce McMillan
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 25, 2021
    Done, thanks Bruno.
    • John_Sanders's avatar
      John_Sanders
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      Jun 25, 2021

      The corrected spacing between paragraphs is a fix we implemented to return to previous modern page spacing, fixing a bug we introduced while making a performance improvement in late 2020. At that time, we removed virtually all space between paragraphs, making reading quite difficult for many users.

       

      Our design team discovered this issue in late March, and we've been slowly rolling out the bug fix for the last few months. We recently moved to the final phase of the flight roll-out from 50% to 100% WW.

       

      Here's is a comparison picture of the current (and previous spacing on modern pages), and the brief time when we had extremely tight spacing introduced by the performance optimization.

       

      Example text from Vegan Ipsum - The Vegan Lorem Ipsum Text Generator

       

      If the fix somehow introduced some other spacing oddness, we're unaware of, please let us know.

       

      The intended fix adds back spacing between all paragraphs. fyi Bruno Aleixo 

       

       

       

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        Bryce McMillan
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 04, 2021

        John_Sanders Bruno Aleixo Mark-Kashman 

         

        The example you have provided that you present as the 'fixed' version of spacing does not match the actual spacing we are seeing all over our SharePoint Online tenant.

         

        > If the fix somehow introduced some other spacing oddness, we're unaware of, please let us know.

         

        This is me letting you know that what you present doesn't match what we're seeing and that we're still seeing 'spacing oddness' that needs to be addressed.

         

        James Mountfordand others have already provided plenty of examples of this but it appears that no one is listening. (Thanks James for sharing the Business Impact Statement earlier)

         

        This is the latest response we provided this morning in regard to our incident raised with MS after being told that everything is by design:

         

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