How To Double Space In Word Mac

Double space the selected text.

How to double space in word mac. Learn the keyboard shortcuts. Select the text that you d like to double space. On the home tab in the styles group right click normal and then click modify. Then click on the line spacing button in the paragraph group.

Select the text that you want to change. Choose the number of line spaces you want or select line spacing options and then select the options you want under spacing. Select all the text you wish to change the spacing of. Under formatting click the double space button and then click ok.

This will give you double spacing. Press ctrl 1 pc or command 1 mac. The distance between ascenders parts of letters that extend to the top of the line and descenders parts of letters that extend below the line stays the same. This will give you 1 5 line spacing.

Then select the home tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Select 2 0 from the popup menu. In this case you will be editing character spacing only. Now when you view your document the text should be double spaced.

Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. Alternatively you can select a paragraph or only a few lines. To change the spacing before or after each of the paragraphs in the text you selected click the arrow next to before or after and enter the amount of space that you want. Pull down the apple menu and go to system preferences go to the keyboard preference panel and choose the keyboard tab locate the key repeat slider setting and adjust it to the off position exit out of system preferences.

Click the disclosure triangle next to spacing to open it click the pop up menu below spacing then choose an option. Formatting for the entire document changes to double spacing.