Aug 14, 2019 How to Change Line Spacing Options in Microsoft Word for Office 365 You may have noticed in the image shown in Step 5 above that there is a Line Spacing Options item on that menu. If you need to make some additional changes to the spacing in your document, then you can click on that option to see the image shown below. To quickly double‐space text, select the text and press Command+2. Press Command+5 to put one and a half lines between lines of text. Press Option+Command+M to open the Paragraph dialog box.
- How To Double Space In Word For Mac
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The steps to enable double spacing in Microsoft Word differ slightly between versions. Consequently, you may need to use some intuition to adapt them for older versions. To proceed, decide which situation applies to you, then follow the steps in that section.
TipUse 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.
How To Double Space In Word For Mac
Enable double spacing for the whole document
Microsoft Word 2016 (Office 365)
- Open Microsoft Word.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Line and Paragraph Spacing () icon.
- Select the desired spacing option from the available list.
- For additional spacing options, select Line Spacing Options in the list.
Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, and 2013
- Open Microsoft Word.
- On the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-click Normal.
- Select Modify from the drop-down menu.
- Under Formatting, click the Double Space button (shown below).
- Click OK.
- Open Microsoft Word.
- Click the Page Layout tab.
- Click the down arrow in the bottom right corner next to Paragraph to bring up the Paragraph window.
- In the Paragraph window, make sure you are on the Indents and Spacing tab.
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- Click the down arrow next to the Line spacing box.
- Select Double and click the OK button.
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Modify line spacing for all or part of an existing document
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Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016
- Open Microsoft Word and the document you want to modify.
- Highlight the text you want to have double spaced or select all.
- Right-click the highlighted text and click Format and then Paragraph, or only Paragraph depending on your version of Word.
- In the Paragraph window, make sure you are on the Indents and Spacing tab.
- Click the down arrow in the Line spacing drop-down box.
- Select Double and click the OK button.
Additional information
- See the double space definition for further information and related links.