How To Set Double Spacing In Word

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How to set double spacing in word. Click on the fullstop period question mark or exclamation to change the spacing. Press ctrl 5 pc or command 5 mac. Newer versions office 2007 2010 to double space the whole document go to design paragraph spacing and choose double. Highlight the text you want to have double spaced or select all.

Microsoft 365 office 365 in word 365 if the spacing setting isn t correct there s a brown dotted line. Microsoft word 2007 2010 2013 and 2016 open microsoft word and the document you want to modify. The line spacing is shown in multiples. Select all the text you wish to change the spacing of.

2 0 is double spacing 3 0 is triple spacing and so on. Open word and select a paragraph you want to double line spacing for. Right click on the dotted line to see the options under punctuation conventions. On the home tab go.

This time select line spacing options. To double space only part of the document select the paragraphs you want to change go to home line and paragraph spacing and choose 2 0. This will give you double spacing. On the home tab and click the line spacing button again.

Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. Double line spacing in microsoft word per paragraph line spacing. You can double space all or part of a word document. Press ctrl 1 pc or command 1 mac.

If you want to choose another spacing or revert to the original spacing click the line and paragraph spacing option again and select a different multiple. This will give you 1 5 line spacing.