When you're creating a document, you may be curious about how to set the spacing in Word. There are many reasons why you might want to change the spacing in each line or paragraph, maybe because you want your text to be easier to read or you want to fit more text on one page. MS Word offers easy settings for changing spacing, here's how.
Adjusting line or paragraph spacing in the documents you create may not be something you will do often. However, there are times when you have to create a document with double spaces because it is a mandatory requirement, such as when writing a thesis for example.
Outside the world of lectures, it is not much different, there will be times when work requires you to create a document with a different special space format. Even personal writing that you make yourself, the correct spacing will make the text easier to read or you can also make the reader focus more on something in your writing. If the default spacing settings from Word don't suit you, then how to adjust the spacing in Word is actually very easy.
Line spacing is the blank space between two lines of text. While paragraph spacing or paragraph spacing is the empty space between two paragraphs. Just like when you choose a font or set margins, spacing is equally important in terms of document formatting.
How to Set Spacing in Word with Presets
Previously you should know that Word offers several presets that you can choose from. To set the spacing, block all paragraphs for which you want to change the spacing. Then on the Home tab, click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button. The button will bring up a small menu with several presets that you can choose to change line spacing (at the top), and paragraph spacing (at the bottom).
In the several line spacing options available, you can choose “2.0” for double spacing, “3.0” for triple spacing, and so on. Choose the spacing you want, and Word will apply the spacing to the paragraphs you want.
In paragraph spacing settings, you can only add or reduce preset spacing before or after paragraphs. But in this preset menu you can only add one space. If you haven't changed the settings, the preset will offer to add paragraph spacing. Then if you have added it, the menu then changes to an option to remove the space earlier.
How to Set Spacing in Word More Specific
If you want to adjust the spacing in Word in more detail, then you can apply the steps below.First of all, select which paragraphs you want to change the spacing settings for, or if you want to change all of them, you can press Ctrl + A. On the Home tab, click the small arrow icon located at the bottom right of the Paragraph group.
Then a Paragraph window will appear. On the Indents and Spacing tab, in the Spacing section, you can enter the amount of spacing you want to apply to lines or paragraphs.
On the left are two options, Before and After, to control how much space you want before and after paragraphs. Then on the right, the Line Spacing option allows you to choose a preset as before with a few additional options.
The other options include At least where you can specify a minimum number to use for line spacing and will be very useful in some situations. Exactly allows you to specify the exact number you use in each line of the desired paragraph. Multiple allows you to specify more specific numbers for spaces.
Setting the space is not difficult is not it? You can do it without presets or anything like that. That's Letsmodapps article on how to set spaces in word 2013 on a laptop. May be useful!