How To Double Space In Word Mac

Select 2 0 from the popup menu.

How to double space in word mac. Under formatting click the double space button and then click ok. In this case you will be editing character spacing only. Then click on the line spacing button in the paragraph group.

Press ctrl 5 pc or command 5 mac. Alternatively you can select a paragraph or only a few lines. Click the disclosure triangle next to spacing to open it click the pop up menu below spacing then choose an option.

Select the text that you want to change. This will give you double spacing. Double space the selected text.

Press ctrl 1 pc or command 1 mac. Press ctrl 2 pc or command 2 mac. This will give you 1 5 line spacing.

The distance between ascenders parts of letters that extend to the top of the line and descenders parts of letters that extend below the line stays the same. Learn the keyboard shortcuts. On the home tab in the styles group right click normal and then click modify.

Pull down the apple menu and go to system preferences go to the keyboard preference panel and choose the keyboard tab locate the key repeat slider setting and adjust it to the off position exit out of system preferences. Formatting for the entire document changes to double spacing. To change the spacing before or after each of the paragraphs in the text you selected click the arrow next to before or after and enter the amount of space that you want.