Line spacing word text box

Line Spacing refers to the amount of space between any two lines in the Word Document. The default size of Line Spacing is 1.08 in MS Word. However, we can add custom line spaces to different lines, paragraphs in our Word Document according to our requirements and ensure quite good readability of our content to others.

In MS Word there are multiple ways to adjust Line Spacing which are as follows: 

Method 1: Using the Line Spacing button

One way of setting the Line Spacing is using directly the Line and Paragraph Spacing feature in MS Word, which comes under the Home menu.

There are multiple Line Spaces like: 1.0, 1.15, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, etc.

Steps to Apply:

Step 1: Select the text/line/Paragraph you want to change the spacing.

Step 2: Now, select the Line and Paragraph Spacing tab from the Paragraph menu under the Home tab and select the line spacing of your choice.

Perform the same steps for different line spacing:

• Select the text/line/Paragraph you want to change the spacing.

• Now, select the Line and Paragraph Spacing tab from the Paragraph menu under the Home tab and select the line spacing of your choice.

• Select the text/line/Paragraph you want to change the spacing.

• Now, select the Line and Paragraph Spacing tab from the Paragraph menu under the Home tab and select the line spacing of your choice.

Results: 

Final Result of the Complete Word Document.

Method 2: Using Paragraph Dialog Box

Another way of setting the Line Spaces is using the Paragraph dialog box feature in MS Word. The Paragraph dialog box provides a wide variety of features along with Line Spacing that we can use in our Word Document to modify beautifully and accurately.

There are multiple Line Spaces in the Paragraph dialog box like- Single, 1.5 lines, Double, At least, Exactly, Multiple, etc,

Steps to Apply:

Step 1: Select the text/line/Paragraph you want to change the spacing.

Step 2: Now, select the Show/Hide Paragraph tab from the Paragraph menu under the Home tab.

Step 3: Now, Select the dialog box launcher-Paragraph Setting from the Paragraph menu under the Home tab.

Step 4: Then select the Line Spacing from the dialog box under the Indents and Spacing tab- Single, 1.5 lines, Double, At least, Exactly, Multiple, etc, and then press the OK button.

Result: 

As the whole Document was selected initially, so the Complete Word Document’s line spacing is changed to 1.5 lines.

Want to improve the readability of your text or fit more text in your Word document? Changing line spacing can help with that.

There are various ways you can change the line spacing of your Word document. This article is going to show you step by step how to change line spacing in Word.

How to Change Line Spacing in Word

1. Open your Word document and click on the Home tab.

2. Click on the Show/Hide paragraph mark button on the Paragraph section. This is optional, as it is just to show you how paragraphs and other hidden formatting symbols may alter your line spacing.

3. Select the text you want to change the line spacing.

4. Click on the Line and Paragraph Spacing in the Paragraph section.

5. Choose your desired line spacing from the drop-down menu from 1.0-3.0. Here, 1.0 will set your document to single spacing and 2.0 is double-spacing.

How to Change Line Spacing in Word From the Paragraph Dialog Box

1. You can change line spacing in Word using the Paragraph Dialog Box. The process is the same as above, however when you get to step 4, click on the Paragraph Dialog Box.

2. The Paragraph Dialog Box will pop up. Click on to Line spacing and choose your desired line spacing. Click OK to set the change in line spacing.

How to Double Space in Word From the Page Layout Tab

To use this method:

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click on the Page Layout tab.
3. Go to the Paragraph section. Click on the down-facing arrow in the bottom right corner, which will pop the Paragraph dialog box.
4. Click on the Indents and Spacing tab.
5. In the Spacing segment, look for the Line Spacing box and click on it.
6. Then click on Double from the list box.
7. Click OK to set the double-spacing, and that will also exit the dialog box.

Line Spacing in Word

One of the easiest ways to improve the readability of your Word document is by changing the line spacing. With the above steps, you can do that and have a readable document.

A TextBox simply shows single or multiline text with no formatting options — it can have a font but that applies to the TextBox and not to the text, so you can’t have paragraph settings like line spacing as far as I know.

My first suggestion would be to use a RichTextBox, but then again, RTF doesn’t have a code for line spacing so I believe that would be impossible as well.

So my final suggestions is to use an owner-drawn control. It shouldn’t be too difficult with a fixed-width font — you know the location of each character is (x*w, y*h) where x and y are the character index and w and h are the size of one character.

Edit: Thinking about it a bit more, it’s even simpler — simply separate the string to lines and draw each line.

Here’s a simple control that does just that. When testing it I found that for Font = new Font(FontFamily.GenericMonospace, 10, FontStyle.Regular), the best value for Spacing was -9.

/// <summary>
/// Displays text allowing you to control the line spacing
/// </summary>
public class SpacedLabel : Control {
    private string[] parts;

    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) {
        Graphics g = e.Graphics;
        g.Clear(BackColor);

        float lineHeight = g.MeasureString("X", Font).Height;

        lineHeight += Spacing;

        using (Brush brush = new SolidBrush(ForeColor)) {
            for (int i = 0; i < parts.Length; i++) {
                g.DrawString(parts[i], Font, brush, 0, i * lineHeight);
            }
        }
    }

    public override string Text {
        get {
            return base.Text;
        }
        set {
            base.Text = value;
            parts = (value ?? "").Replace("r", "").Split(new[] { 'n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Controls the change in spacing between lines.
    /// </summary>
    public float Spacing { get; set; }
}