How To Double Space Words In Word

Select the contents you want to increase or decrease the letter spacing.
How to double space words in word. After successfully executing step 2 you need to click on the line spacing button which has four lines with an up down arrows. Click the design tab in the top menu. Press ctrl 5 pc or command 5 mac. On the home tab in the styles group right click normal and then click modify.
Select the text that you want to change. Select the text that you want to stretch or compress. Select all the text you wish to change the spacing of. By default you will have home tab selected.
Click the down arrow next to the line spacing box. In the scale box enter the percentage that you want. Select 2 0 from the popup menu. When working with a word document other than changing the paragraph and line spacing you also can change the spacing between letters and words.
You can change the letter spacing in two ways. Formatting for the entire document changes to double spacing. After finish the settings click replace all to remove all extra spaces between words from the whole document. Then click on the line spacing button in the paragraph group.
Double space the selected text. This will give you 1 5 line spacing. On the home tab click the font dialog box launcher and then click the advanced tab. This will open a drop down menu for you from which you have to select 2 0 as an option because you wanted a double space.
Stretch or scale the text horizontally. Learn the keyboard shortcuts. Check the use wildcards box under search options section then type 2 in find what field and 1 in replace with field. Select the home tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen.
Press ctrl 1 pc or command 1 mac. Now when you view your document the text should be double spaced. Please see the steps below for details. Click the paragraph spacing option in the left portion of the ribbon menu.
Open word and create a new document. In the drop down menu click double from the built in section. Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. This will give you double spacing.
Under formatting click the double space button and then click ok.