See How do I give feedback on Microsoft Office? for more information. Help us improve Wordĭo you have suggestions about how we can improve Word? Let us know by providing us feedback. Post a question in the Word Answers Community. Using Styles in Word - a free, 10-minute video training course.Īlign text left or right, center text, or justify text on a pageĭo you have a question about Word that we didn't answer here? The Line spacing drop-down lets you select or set more specific line spacing.įor more information on modifying styles in Word, see: Customize styles in Word. If you'd like to apply more specific line spacing to the style, clickthe Format button at the bottom left corner of the Modify Style dialog box and select Paragraph.
#HOW TO FIX SPACING IN WORD HOW TO#
Choose the spacing you want to apply and click OK. How to adjust the spacing between paragraphs in Word Navigate to the home tab Click line and paragraph spacing dropdown in the paragraph section Choose a. Near the center of the dialog box you'll find the line spacing buttons that let you select single, 1.5x or double spaced. This will add space between each block of text, evening out the spacing. If your text is justified, this will even out the spacing between each line. Right-click the style you want to change and select Modify. There are a few things you can do to fix uneven spacing: -Adjust the paragraph spacing. Note: If youre using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing. Right-click on a dotted line to see the correction and fix the sentence spacing, one at a time. The Sentence Spacing settings (single, double or don’t care) is in Word’s Grammar settings see Sentence Spacing in Word. To increase or decrease the amount of vertical space between lines of text within a paragraph, the best method is to modify the style the paragraph uses.įind the style you're using in the Styles gallery on the Home tab. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab. Make all sentences end with a single space instead of double spaces, triple or more. Percentages below 100 percent compress the text. Percentages above 100 percent stretch the text. In the Scale box, enter the percentage that you want. Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.