


If needed, start by opening a blank document in Word 2010 (press the Ctrl+N keyboard shortcut if you have another document opened, we'll try out line spacing options on a test document). In Word 2003, however, the defaults were 1.0 line spacing, and no default spacing after each paragraph (more "compact").
#How to single space in word table 1.15 how to#
The paragraph you are reading right now has a line spacing of 1.3 - 30% of the line height is taken by white space, which helps long paragraphs "breath", and become a bit more friendly to readers' eyes! In this tutorial, we will show you how to change the line spacing as multiples of the current font size, or set it to a fixed unit - and which solution is typically best, and for which purpose.įYI: in Word 2010 and Word 2007, the default line spacing is 1.15, with a default paragraph spacing of 10 points after. This measures the total height of the line, including space above and below the previous and next lines (this works in conjunction with " paragraph spacing", for example, which controls how much white space appears before and after each paragraph). Whenever you type some text in a Word 2010 document, it will by default have a " 1.15" line spacing value (also known as " line height"), which means that 1.15 times the current font size will be used to display a line of text: the smaller the multiple (minimum being 1), the more "tight" your text looks.
