Create Space Within the Document

Creating space in a document affects its appearance and readability. Change from single spacing, the default, to 1.5 spacing or double spacing. Use the preferred method of single spacing for business letters or documents, or use double spacing for print manuscripts, reports, and school papers.

• Highlight the entire text of your document or just a paragraph

  Note: You can also select the entire text by using the Alt+a short-cut.

• Select Format from the Menu bar
• Select Paragraph
• Select Double from the Line spacing drop-down
• Select OK

You have just completed this section of Lesson 4 and can now create space within your documents by changing the line spacing. If you would like to move forward and learn how to insert headers and footers, select Next. If you'd like to go to a different section within this lesson or to a new lesson, choose one of the options in the Navigation bar.