When writing an essay on Microsoft Word, how do you double space the WHOLE document?

Question

And how do you check how many words you have typed?

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Answer 1

On the formatting toolbar top or second row there is a box with lines and and up and down arrow. click it and it will give you options for spacing.
1.,1.5, 2, etc click on 2.
Highlight the text (hold down right mouse button drag mouse over
page) click off below highlighted area. text should be double spaced.
You can also type in line spacing, or double space in the help box and there is information on line and paragraph spcaing

Answer 2

Type your entire document single-spaced first, format everything the way you want it, spell-check it, etc., until you're sure you're done.

SAVE Your Original Document.

Then select all the text (Ctrl+a) then go to Format pulldown menu, then to Paragraph, and change line-spacing box from single to double. Click OK.

Do a Save As to save a different version of your document so that if you mess it up in any way hereafter, you can always go back to the Original and start the double-space formatting over again.

Then go thru the document and see if you like the way the pages broke up and if not make minor adjustments as you see fit.

Word count is available under the Tools Menu.

Answer 3

Click on the fomat tab at the top of the screen
Click on pragraph.
On the near right hand quarter of the box, there is a line that sayas spacing.
Select double
Click ok.

It should double space everything you type from that point on. If you have already typed in single space. Highlight the whole document, the follow the instructions above.

There is a word and character count under tools.

Good luck! with the essay

Answer 4

Are you talking about double line spacing or double spaces between sentences. For the former you will find the setting under format-->paragraph-->line spacing (older versions of word) or on the home tab under paragraph. If you can't find it, search line spacing in help. For the indices, you need to select the number, then go format-->font and check the superscript check box. In the new version of word (2007) it is a button under the font section on the home tab. Once again, if you search superscript in the help file it will show you how if you're stuck. Finally, if the superscript always comes after a particular word then you can use Ctrl+H to replace all occurences of something in the document.

Answer 5

Highlight the whole document
Click on Format in the menu
Select Paragraph
Check the Double Space option

Look under "Tools" for the "Word Count" option

Answer 6

To double space the whole document:
Highlight the entire document. Click file - and scroll down and choose paragraph. When the dialog box opens - find the little box within that says line spacing - and choose double.

To get a word count:
Click on tools - scroll down to word count.

Good luck on your essay!

Answer 7

Highlight the entire document. Then go to the format tab at the top of your page. Click this tab and then select "paragraph". Next go to spacing (or line spacing )and select "double".
Hope this helps!

Answer 8

All you do is highlight everything you want double spaced an press CTRL and the number 2 at the same time and it is done. Hope that helped.

Answer 9

Highlight are then go to format, then paragraph, there you should see line spacing then choose double. I hope that helps

Answer 10

If its after you finished writting it then select all, then on the tool bar you click on format, select paragraph, when it opens choose "double" where it says LINE SPACING.
For knowing the word count you click on tools and then select "word count"