It shows a small preview screen so you get a general idea of how it will look. This desire is inherent even when working with documents Vord. If you select Line Spacing Options you can tweak it even more. When you create something, or with something you get acquainted, you want that what you work with looks beautiful and aesthetic. Be sure to go into there and set everything to do with line spacing to Single and 0.0. This is a thing with the new Words Paragraph spacing. Again with Live Preview you’ll be able to hover over the different spacing options and see how it will look. Usually holding down shift whilst pressing Enter will make the text go onto the next line instead of doing the obnoxious spacing inbetween. Which might be ok for some users because the sentences don’t seem so crammed together, but you might want to customize it. Then on the Ribbon in the Paragraph group click on the Line and Paragraph Spacing button. In Word 2007 & 2010 Microsoft changed the default line spacing to 1.15. If you only want to change the line spacing in select parts of a document, highlight the text to change. Here we set it to Word 2003 and anytime we start a new document, it will default to this Style Set with Spacing set to 1.0.Ĭhange Line Spacing in Selected Portions of Documents To set it as default go to Change Styles then Set as Default. You might want to the Style Set to default to the one you choose every time you start a new document. Once you find one you like just click on it. Lines that are spaced slightly apart are easier to read that those that. Hover over any of the Sets in the list and the entire document will change. When you are writing a document in Microsoft Word, you may find it necessary from time to time to change the line spacing. Because the box is transparent and ‘floating’ it can be overlaid on the rest of the document to give exact positioning.And here is an example of the Manuscript Style Set. Drag the text box until it’s exactly where you want it. Set the text box to Shape Fill | No Fill (ie transparent), no border and positioning in front of text. Put one or both of the lines in a text box. The ultimate in line positioning is using a text box. Turn the table gridlines off and it appears as two lines of closely formatted text.Ĭlose line spacing with a table (left, gridlines showing) and how it appears in the final document (right). Put each line in a cell then adjust the row heights until they are as close as you need. Tables are the secret trick for all Word nerds.
We usually settle for something in the 0.7 to 0.8 range to get the lines close together without clipping the tops of letters. Reduce the line spacing too much and the letters will be cut off. Try out various line spacing fractions until you get what you need. Use the Line spacing drop-down menu to select a spacing option. Set the Multiple line spacing value to less than one eg 0.7 Click the Line spacing command in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. To set less than 1 line space go to Paragraph | Line Spacing and choose ‘Multiple’ – yes ‘Multiple’. If those options don’t work, it’s time to break out the major nerd tricks. Just below those choices is “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style”.Ĭhecking that box will remove the before and after spacing, assuming both lines have the same style. Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style Maybe all you need to do is reduce one or both of those. Open the paragraph spacing dialog from the little button at bottom right of the Paragraph section of the ribbon.Ĭheck the Spacing, Before or After settings. Turn ‘Show all’ on (Home | Paragraph | Show All) to see both Paragraph marks (the reverse P or pilcrow, left) and line breaks (angled arrow, right). Paragraph Break vs Line BreakĪ simple way to reduce the line spacing is to switch from the usual Paragraph Break (pressing Enter) for a Line Break (Shift + Enter)Ī Line Break will usually make a smaller gap between two lines. Instead a few options to check and adjust until you get what you want. Selecting a line shows the amount of space Word has allocated above and below the line. The left example has selected the top line. Here’s an example of standard line spacing (left) and very close spacing (right).
It becomes useful when trying some design tricks for headings, for example the title in our Millennium poster. Reducing the line spacing or vertical gap between lines in Word paragraphs can be done in six different ways depending on the situationĪdjusting line spacing to put lines very close isn’t usually necessary for regular text.