Microsoft Word: Double Spacing help?

Question

I am double spacing my words, but the space between is so "thin". Is there any other way in which I can make it "thicker"? Thanks.

Answer 1

Change your font size, and do not use a hard carriage return to move to another line unless it is a new paragraph. When you are done typing, just press CTRL + A (keyboard shortcut for Select All), then change the font size back to what you would use for printing or saving to portable drive, then save.

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You can also show special formatting characters (a dot where a space would be between words) but this can potentially confuse you if you don't remember you have it on, or where to turn it off and on.

In Word 2003, click the editors paragraph symbol and those special characters will appear. I'm not the first one to state this - Lucy did (with additional steps that may be more than you need to perform) - I might not deserve best answer :)

Pressing CTRL + a number will change the line spacing, not the character spacing (will place a blank line between each line of text)

Answer 2

Double Spaced just means that it gives her more room to grade your paper. It looks like this. The bird flew aimlessly around the yard until he flew straight into the window that was just cleaned by Windex, so he had no clue it even existed. Sorry for the stupid sentence, lol. But here is how you do it if you happen to have the same Microsoft Word as me. 1. Highlight your whole paper. 2. Go to Format > Paragraph. 3. Under the third section on Indents and Spacing, under Line Spacing click the arrow and click on double. That's it. It's relatively simple. :) Oh, and if you wanna see your readability stats, which I always like doing after I write a paper, do this: 1. Click on Tools. 2. Go to Options, which is at the very bottom. 3. Click on the Spelling and Grammar Section. 4. Then click on show readability statistics at the bottom. Close out of it, then spell check your paper to see it. I like knowing how high tech my paper is written. Haha, good luck though. I hope you get an A++. :p

Answer 3

In a word document, it automatically defalts to single spacing. As you seem to describe, you may not have double spaced your document...or you need to adjust it more.

On your tool bar, you should see the Paragraph symbol. It sorta looks like the Pi symbol if you don't know what I'm talking about. Clik that and you will see the symbol appear (and many like them if you have work in your document). Right click the paragraph mark above the end mark in the document window. The shortcut menu will appear. Point to "Paragraph" on the shortcut menu. Click "Paragraph." If necessary, click the Indents and Spacing tab when the Paragraph dialog box first opens. Click the "Line Spacing" box arrow and then point to Double. Click "Double." Point and Click the OK button.

Also, on the Format menu, click "paragraph", click "indents and spacing" tabe, click "Line Spacing" box arrow, click "Double" and then "OK." There should also be other options like 1.5.

Answer 4

An easy way is to use the Expand feature.

Click Format - Font. On the "Character Spacing" tab, choose Spacing - Expanded, then enter a number by which to expand - 1.2 or 2 or 10.

This will space out all the letters and spaces by the number you enter.

Answer 5

press CTRL and the number