How can I indent a paragraph WITHOUT creating spaces above or beneath?

Question

I am using Dreamweaver CS3 on a G5 Macintosh running OS
10.5.5.
I selected a new HTML document (Dreamweaver opened it as a
CSS) and pasted text from a MS Word document.
When I "Indent" ALL of the text everything stays the same
except that it is ALL indented.
BUT when I "Indent" only one paragraph then that paragraph is
not only indented BUT there ALSO appears an extra space before and
an extra space after that paragraph.
What this is doing is inserting <blockquote> before and
after the paragraph.
How can I "indent" a paragraph without any spaces appearing
before or after the paragraph?
Also can this be easily done from the Design page?
I tried inserting a tag by pressing the "tag" button on the
keyboard but that did the same thing as using the "indent" function
(i.e. also inserted spaces before & after the paragraph).
BTW: I am a novice, so please try to make it as simple as
possible.

Answer 1

When you paste from Word, you often get line breaks instead
of paragraphs.
I think that's the problem.
Instead of this -
<p>this is a paragraph</p>
<p>this is a paragraph</p>
<p>this is a paragraph</p>
<p>this is a paragraph</p>
you get this -
<p>this is a paragraph<br />
this is a paragraph<br />
this is a paragraph<br />
this is a paragraph</p>
In which case the symptoms are completely understandable.
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>> Could you please be so kind to advise me what the
code should be.
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>>>> and pasted
>>>> text from a MS Word document.
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> Please give a URL address to an uploaded file that you
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> It could be numerous things.
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> If you pasted Word text into a dw document, it could be
thousands of
> things.
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> Specific code- specific problem- specific fix.
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> Otherwise it's just mushy guesses.
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