This tutorial will teach you how to change the default line spacing in Microsoft Word 2003. Line spacing is an option that can be accessed by using a tool called “Options” on the ribbon located along your top toolbar. This technique also works with older versions of Microsoft Word, but not all options may exist or have different names. Topics covered:
-How to access Options from the ribbon bar
-What each option does and what it changes
The “default line spacing in word 2013” is a question that has been asked by many people. The answer to this question is found on the Word 2003 help page.
To format line spacing, use the following formula:
- On the menu bar, choose Format.
- Choose a paragraph. The dialog box for the paragraph appears.
- Select the Indents and Spacing tab from the drop-down menu.
- You may choose single, 1.5, or double spacing from the line spacing drop-down option. Singlespacing is the default.
- Click the OK button.
How can I adjust the default line spacing in Word, as well?
In Word, change the default line spacing.
- Go to Home > Line and Paragraph Spacing , and then chooseLine Spacing Options.
- Select an option in the Line spacing box under Spacing.
- If you wish to adjust the spacing between paragraphs, change the Before and After options.
- Choose Set as Default from the drop-down menu.
- All papers based on the Normal template should be selected.
- Choose OK.
As a result, the question is: how do I remove line space in Word? Remove the extra line gap.
- To select all text, use Ctrl+A after selecting the paragraph you wish to modify.
- Go to Home > Line and Paragraph Spacing.
- Choose your preferred line spacing.
- Select Line Spacing Options and make modifications under Spacing for more precise spacing.
Then, in Microsoft Word 2016, what is the default line spacing?
The gap between each line in a paragraph is known as line spacing. You may set the line spacing in Word to be single spaced (one line high), double spaced (two lines high), or anything you desire. Word’s default line spacing is 1.08 lines, which is somewhat more than singlespaced.
In Microsoft Word 2010, what is the default line spacing?
In Word 2003 the default line spacing is1.0 which might be to compressed for some users. In Word2007 & 2010 Microsoft changed the default linespacing to 1.15.
Answers to Related Questions
Then, under Line and Paragraph Spacing, choose Line Spacing Options. Now go to the Paragraph window’sSpacing section and change the value from “At:” to 1,00. Then just choose Set as Default from the drop-down menu and you’re done.
Is there a single spacing of 1.15?
1.15, or 115 percent, is the value of “single” line spacing. The page gives instructions on how to change the default setting.
In Word 2013, how can I modify the line spacing?
Summary – How to modify Word2013’s default line spacing
- Go to the Home tab and choose it.
- In the Paragraph part of the ribbon, click the Paragraph Settings button.
- Select the appropriate line spacing from the drop-down option under Line Spacing.
- Select Set as Default from the drop-down menu.
In Word 2007, how do you modify the line spacing?
Adapt the line spacing
- Choose the text you’d want to edit.
- Go to the Home tab and choose it.
- Select a spacing choice by clicking the Line Spacing button arrow. To change a setting, click the desired number. Click the Line Spacing button to apply the last setting.
Where can I find the line spacing options?
Choose the paragraphs that you’d want to alter. Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button on the Hometab. Choose the amount of line spaces you want or go to the bottom of the menu and click LineSpacing Choices, then pick the options you want in the Paragraph dialog box underSpacing.
In Word, how do I double-check the spacing?
In Word, how can I check sentence spacing?
- In Word, go to the File menu and choose “Options.”
- Click “Settings” on the Writing Style line on the “Proofing” tab.
- Select “Spaces Required Between Sentences” from the drop-down menu.
- Click “Spelling & Grammar” on the Review tab to check forall errors in the document, including incorrect sentencespacing.
1.5 line spacing equals how many PT?
“Space Before” = 6 pt., word default of 0 This is shown in the dialog in 6 point increments by default. Type pt + 6 for the default single line spacing. The gap between textlines inside a paragraph is referred to as “line spacing” in Word.
In a report, what should the line spacing be?
Fonts and spacing are important considerations.
They’re more pleasant to read. Unless otherwise stated, fonts should be at least 12 point and 1.5 line spacing is suggested. A bold’sans serif’ font (such as ‘Ariel’) may be used for titles and headers. Between paragraphs, a blank line is utilized with no indentation.
In Word, how can I get from double space to single space?
You can double-space all or part of aWord document. To double-space the wholedocument, go to Design > Paragraph Spacing, and chooseDouble. Tip: To double-space only part of thedocument, select the paragraphs you want to change, go toHome > Line and Paragraph Spacing, and choose2.0.
In a paragraph, what is the space between lines of text?
They’re both pretty much exactly what they say on the tin. The amount of white space between two lines of text is called linespacing. The amount of white space between two paragraphs is referred to as paragraph spacing.
What are the various line spacing options?
In Word, you may pick from four different forms of line spacing: single spacing, 1.5 times spacing, double spacing, or a custom amount, where the numbers correspond to the size of the gap in relation to the size of the line.
In Word, how can I get rid of wide gaps in the text?
Change all of your headers to Normal to close the wide gap. I’m not sure what’s wrong, but here’s what I did to repair it:
- Simply click on the text to highlight it.
- Click with the right mouse button.
- Choose “Paragraph” from the drop-down menu.
- Select “Line and Page Breaks” from the drop-down menu.
- Select “Continue with next” from the drop-down menu.
- OK.
Lesson 8: Set Line and Paragraph Spacing
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Introduction
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
- Set line spacing
- Set paragraph spacing
Line spacing
Document text can be formatted to show a number of line spacing options. The most common spacing options are single spaced and double spaced.
Line spacing is measured in lines, or points.
When line spacing is measured in points, it is referred to as leading (rhymes with wedding). When you reduce the leading, you automatically bring lines of text closer together, sometimes making it difficult to read. Increasing the leading will space the lines out, allowing for improved readability. For example, a 10-point font usually uses 12-point leading. This is the default and, in general, should be used.
To format line spacing:
- Select the text you want to format.
- Choose Reveal Formatting on the task pane, and click any of the blue links under the Paragraph heading.
OR
- Click Format on the menu bar.
- Select Paragraph. The Paragraph dialog box appears.
- Click the Indents and Spacing tab.
- In the line spacing drop-down menu, you can select single, 1.5, or double spacing. The default is single spacing.
- Click OK.
OR
- Select the text you want to format.
- Click the Line Spacing button on the Formatting menu.
- Select an option from the drop-down menu.
Paragraph dialog box
You can use the At Least, Exactly, and Multiple options in the Paragraph dialog box to customize your line spacing. If you select one of these options, you will need to use the At: box to further define your selection.
When you make a line spacing change, it affects only the text in a paragraph that contains the insertion point.
Paragraph spacing
Just as you can add spacing between lines in your document, you can choose spacing options between each paragraph. Typically, extra spaces are added between paragraphs, headings, or subheadings. Extra spacing between paragraphs adds emphasis and makes a document easier to read.
Choose extra space:
- Before each paragraph
- After each paragraph
- Before and after each paragraph
To specify paragraph spacing:
- Select the text you want to format.
- Choose Reveal Formatting on the task pane, and click any of the blue links under the Paragraph heading.
OR
- Click Format on the menu bar.
- Select Paragraph. The Paragraph dialog box appears.
- Click the Indents and Spacing tab.
- Alignment: Choose left, right, center, or justified.
- Indentation: Adjust the left and right margins by clicking the up and down arrows. Use the Special drop-down menu to select the first line as having the indent or to create a hanging indent.
- Spacing: To emphasize a block of text, click the up and down arrows.
- Preview: This gives you an idea of how your text will look.
Challenge!
- Download and save the Cover Letter Word document to complete the challenges below.
- Open the document.
- Select the text in the first paragraph, and change the line spacing from 1.5 lines to single space.
- Use the line spacing and paragraph spacing features to practice how they can change your document.
- Be sure to use the Undo feature (from Edit on the main menu or the Undo arrow on the toolbar) to undo any changes you may have made while exploring these features.
- Save and close the document.
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(Note: Since so many people continue to ask us about how to change line spacing in Word 2010, we decided to re-publish this post.)
When the default line spacing in documents changed from single spacing in Word 2003 to a slightly roomier 1.15 spacing in Word 2007 and Word 2010, customers asked the inevitable: Why did the default line spacing change? And how do I change it back?
The short answer is that the default line spacing changed in Word 2007 to make online documents more readable. If you want to change the default line spacing in Word 2007 or Word 2010, or learn how to set the line spacing in a single document, here are the best resources we’ve found for step-by-step instructions.
To learn how to change the default line spacing in Word 2007 or Word 2010 so that every document you open is set to a new line spacing option of your choice, try Change Word 2007 default line spacing to match previous versions (these steps also apply to Word 2010).
Other line spacing resources
To change the line spacing in a document to single-spacing, double-spacing, or another document spacing option, or to change the spacing between paragraphs, check out the article Adjust the line spacing between text or paragraphs for Word 2003, Word 2007, or Word 2010.
For video about changing the line spacing, view Video: Change line spacing in Word 2007 or Video: Adjust the line spacing in Word 2010.
Let us know if you have other questions.
—Leslie H. Cole
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janlafata
I have Microsoft Office Pro 2003. When I clicked on the Word icon to open up a new document today, I noticed that there were no spaces between the three pages of data that I had pasted on it. Just dotted lines that signified what I guess you would call a page break.
Let me see if I can explain that better. It used to be that when I opened up Word to start a new document, there was one white page displayed with a colored border all the way around it. I don’t know where that border or color comes from or how to change the color. I just see it in front of me.
Then, after I finish typing on page 1, Word automatically brings up page two, but there’s a good quarter inch of space between the two pages and I can even see that color I mentioned.
Obviously something is wrong and either there’s a setting somewhere that will restore it to the way I described above or I’ll have to run a repair installation on Office, maybe even an uninstall and reinstall.
But first, your thoughts.
Thank you
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soybean
What was the source of those three pages you pasted? What View are you using, Print Layout, Web Layout, etc.?
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CBMatt
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jackgopher
When you are in what is called «Normal» view the space between pages appear as you described.
Change it to «Print Layout» view by opening the «View» menu and choosing «Print layout».
Now it will be fine.
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Generally, line spacing varies depending on the font and point size of the text in each line. If a line contains a character that is larger than the surrounding text, such as a graphic or a formula, Microsoft Word increases the spacing for that line.
However, if you have specified exact line spacing on the Indents and Spacing tab (Paragraph dialog box, Format menu) that is too small to accommodate large text or graphics, the graphics or text will appear clipped. To see the entire graphic or text, increase the spacing in the At box, or select an option other than Exactly in the Line spacing box.
Why did the spacing change when I deleted text?
If you delete a paragraph mark (
), the paragraph following the mark will merge with the previous paragraph and take on its spacing. If you want to restore the original formatting, click Undo
on the Standard
toolbar.
Ruler or formatting settings appear dimmed or blank.
If you select two or more paragraphs that have different formats, Microsoft Word can’t display the different settings at the same time. On the horizontal ruler, indent and tab markers that appear dimmed show the settings for the first paragraph in the selection. To apply a format to several selected paragraphs that have different formats, you can still adjust the ruler settings, click toolbar buttons, and select dimmed or blank options in the Paragraph dialog box.
I see extra space between paragraphs or at the bottom and top of my page.
Certain vertical alignment settings can change the amount of spacing in between paragraphs. If the vertical alignment is centered, then Microsoft Word moves the paragraphs to the center of the page. If the vertical alignment is justified, then Word distributes the paragraphs so that they fill up the vertical space.
To check vertical alignment, click Page Setup on the File menu, and then click the Layout tab. Under Page, note the setting for Vertical Alignment.