

The other option is to type Ctrl and A at the same time. You can click, hold, and drag the mouse until everything is highlighted. To change all of the spacing in a document you’ve already started, the first step is to highlight all of the text. What I don’t want is this not really a full line, sort of extra space, looks like a mistake happening… thing that Microsoft does by default. Now, if I want a space between lines, I will happily hit the Enter key twice. But where you really notice the extra line spacing is between lines two and three when I hit the Enter key. Note there’s a little more space than you’re used to seeing before the first and second lines, as well as between the third and fourth. So this is what it’s going to look like if you just start typing a Word document. (I’m going to set it to no extra spaces at all.) Here’s how you can set the line spacing however you want. Even though we’ve been living with this for a decade now, it can still be frustrating, especially if you’ve never had a reason to change it and suddenly find that you need to, or if you now have the chance to change it once at set it permanently. Click the down arrow in the Line spacing drop-down box.Starting with Word 2007, Microsoft changed the default line spacing on basic documents.Right-click the highlighted text and click Format and then Paragraph, or only Paragraph depending on your version of Word.Highlight the text you want to have double spaced or select all.Open Microsoft Word and the document you want to modify.Modify line spacing for all or part of an existing document Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 Click the down arrow next to the Line spacing box.In the Paragraph window, make sure you are on the Indents and Spacing tab.Click the down arrow in the bottom right corner next to Paragraph to bring up the Paragraph window.Under Formatting, click the Double Space button (shown below).On the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-click Normal.For additional spacing options, select Line Spacing Options in the list.Select the desired spacing option from the available list.


On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Line and Paragraph Spacing ( ) icon.Enable double spacing for the whole document Microsoft Word 2016 (Office 365) If you want to go to the next line without starting a new paragraph, press Ctrl+ Enter. When pressing Enter, it starts a new paragraph with extra space between the two paragraphs.
