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Word allows you fine-tune the line and paragraph
spacing in your documents.

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In this example, I'd like to start by changing
the line spacing, which is the space between

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each line of text.

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Start by selecting some text, and then in
the Paragraph group, click the Line and Paragraph

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Spacing command.

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By default, the line spacing is 1.08, so if
you change it to 1.0, the lines will be a

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little closer together, and if you choose
2.0 they'll be double-spaced.

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But if you want to have more precise control,
click Line Spacing Options.

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There are two things that you can change:
the line-spacing mode and the amount.

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When the mode is set to Multiple, you can
type in the number of lines of spacing you

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want.

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The default is 1.08, so we might change it
to something like 1.25 to spread the lines

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out a little bit.

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If you're more accustomed to measuring in
points, like with font sizes, you can select

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Exactly.

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Usually, you'll want the spacing to be a little
bit larger than the font size.

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Since I have 12-point text, I'd like to set
it to about 14 or 15.

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Now you may have noticed that there is some
extra space between each paragraph.

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That's because Word adds paragraph spacing
by default.

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If you want, you can remove it or change the
amount of space.

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Make sure the text is selected, then click
the Line and Paragraph Spacing command, and

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then at the bottom of the list there are two
options: Add Space Before Paragraph and Remove

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Space After Paragraph.

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These options will vary depending on the current
paragraph spacing.

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Just like with line spacing, if you want to
fine tune the paragraph spacing, go to Line

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Spacing Options, and then you can type in
whichever values you want for the space Before

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and After.

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I think I'll try 10 points after each paragraph.

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I think this looks pretty good, but if you
don't like the way the line or paragraph spacing

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looks, you can go back and adjust it, until
your document looks the way that you want.