Click the Paragraph launcher on the Home tab to open the Paragraph dialog box. Navigate to the Indents and Spacing tab. In the Between lines box, input or pick the amount of space you want between lines of text under Line spacing. To double space, for example, type or pick 2sp. Click OK.
Change the text by selecting it. Click Paragraph on the Format menu, then the Indents and Spacing option.
Remove the extra line gap.
Navigate to Home > Paragraph and Line Spacing. Select Line Spacing Choices, and then select the Spacing options you wish. To adjust the spacing between the chosen paragraphs, click the arrow next to Before or After and input the desired amount of space. Click Apply.
To adjust line spacing, first go to the ribbon and click the button with an image of a double-sided arrow next to a paragraph. You then decide how much space you want between your lines. Click the button again and choose one of the options: single, double, or triple.
Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing command on the Home tab, then enter the appropriate line spacing. The line spacing of the document will change.
You will also learn how to control space between lines and paragraphs in this video. To do so, first navigate to the Home tab, then to the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and last to the Character Spacing tab. Click Expanded or Condensed in the Spacing box, and then define how much space you want in the By box.
The distance between lines The basic procedures to alter the space between two lines of the document are as follows. Step 1: Choose the paragraph or paragraphs you wish to specify space for. To choose the paragraph, you can use any of the text selection methods (s). Step 2: Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing Button triangle to bring up a selection of options. Step 3: Select the Line and Paragraph Spacing submenu and select one of the options: 'Auto' sets the spacing based on the surrounding content; 'Single' sets the space between each line of the paragraph to the same value; 'Double' sets the space to twice the default value; or 'Third' sets the space to three times the default value.