How Do You Double Space

Highlight the text you want to double space.

How do you double space. Find the line spacing menu and select double from the list. Click on the 2 0 option. Enable double spacing for the whole document.

Select the indents and spacing tab it is probably already open. This will give you 1 5 line spacing. Click on line and paragraph spacing which can be found in the paragraph group of the home tab.

Use the keyboard shortcuts ctrl 1 to single space ctrl 2 to double space or ctrl 5 to set the spacing to 1 5 line spacing on any line paragraph or all highlighted text. Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. If you find yourself changing line spacing often learning the keyboard shortcuts can end up saving you a lot of time.

Click on the arrow to bring up a new window. Select all the text you wish to change the spacing of. Press ctrl 5 pc or command 5 mac.

If you need to double space a full ms word document press the ctrl a hotkey to select all the text in it. This will double space the area of the document you have highlighted. The ctrl 2 keyboard shortcut adds double space to all selected text.

Use the following commands to change the line spacing. To double space the whole document go to design paragraph spacing and choose double. 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.