How To Add Double Spacing In Word

Newer versions office 2007 2010 to double space the whole document go to design paragraph spacing and choose double.

How to add double spacing in word. 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. Click the line and paragraph spacing icon. This will give you 1 5 line spacing.

Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. A drop down menu will appear. It s the one looking like text with two blue arrows pointing up and down.

Select the multiple you want and word applies it to the selected paragraphs. In the styles section right click on normal and click on modify in the resulting context menu. In the home tab look at the paragraph group.

Under the formatting section locate the double space button and click on it to enable double spacing between lines. Right click on the dotted line to see the options under punctuation conventions. Learn the keyboard shortcuts.

Adding double spacing to portions of your text select the text you want to have double spacing. Click on the fullstop period question mark or exclamation to change the spacing. 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 double spacing. 2 0 is double spacing 3 0 is triple spacing and so on. On the backstage screen click options in the list of items on the left.