How to add double spacing on microsoft word 2007

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Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Beth Melton MVP. Here are some steps that show the behavior if interested: Display the Styles task pane, click Manage Styles, and on the Set Defaults tab, make a note of the default font size, then close the dialog box.

In the Modify Style dialog box, make sure Whole Table is selected in "Apply formatting to" and change the font size to 14 pts. The font should change for the text in the table. Modify the Normal style and change the font to 10 pts. Note the font for the text in the table also changes to 10 pts instead of maintaining the font sized defined in the table style. If you change the font size for the Normal style back to match the default font size then the font size in the table will return to 14 pts.

This site in other languages x. Click the Line Spacing button to open the Line Spacing dropdown menu. The button has 4 small lines with an arrow pointing both up and down. From this menu, you can select common line spacing options.

You can access it by clicking the arrow button next to the word Paragraph. This will open the Paragraph menu. In the Paragraph menu, you can adjust the line spacing using the Line Spacing dropdown menu from the Spacing section. Change using the Page Layout menu. In the Page Layout tab click the arrow button next to Paragraph.

Change paragraph spacing. Besides changing the spacing after each line, you can also adjust the amount of space before and after each paragraph. In the Page Layout tab, look for Spacing in the Paragraph section.

Before will add space before the paragraph begins. After will add spacing every time you press Enter to start a new paragraph.

Understand the line spacing options. The default line spacing in Word is set to 1. If you want to have truly single-spaced text, you will need to select Single from the Line Spacing dropdown menu.

There are 72 points to an inch. Change the default spacing. If you would rather have Word automatically space at something other than 1. Word will ask you to confirm the permanent changes to the default template. Change spacing for specific portions of text. You can adjust the spacing for individual portions of the document by selecting the text you want to change and then adjusting the spacing as outlined above. You can change the spacing of the entire document by selecting all of the text and then adjusting the spacing settings.

This will not affect headers, footers, or text boxes. You will need to select these sections individually to change the spacing in them. Learn the keyboard shortcuts. If you find yourself changing line spacing often, learning the keyboard shortcuts can end up saving you a lot of time. Use the following commands to change the line spacing: Select all the text you wish to change the spacing of. This will give you double spacing. This will give you 1.