What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

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Click Design, then Paragraph Spacing. Pick which spacing you want (the default is Open), and notice your whole document will preview as you mouse over the different settings.

What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

If you don’t like those options, click Custom Paragraph Spacing and change the numbers under Paragraph Spacing.

What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

Don’t want to change the spacing in the whole document?

  1. Click anywhere in the paragraph you want to change.

  2. Go to Layout, and under Spacing, click the up or down arrows to adjust the distance before or after the paragraph. You can also type a number directly.

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You can change the spacing between characters of text for selected text or for particular characters. In addition, you can stretch or compress an entire paragraph to make it fit and look the way that you want it to.

Change the spacing between characters

Selecting Expanded or Condensed alters the spacing between all selected letters by the same amount. Kerning alters the spacing between particular pairs of letters - in some cases reducing and in other cases expanding the space depending upon the letters.

Expand or condense the space evenly between all the selected characters

  1. Select the text that you want to change.

  2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.

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    Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

  3. In the Spacing box, click Expanded or Condensed, and then specify how much space you want in the By box.

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Kern the characters that are above a particular size

Kerning refers to the way spacing between two specific characters is adjusted. The idea is to give a better looking result by reducing the spacing between characters that fit together nicely (such as "A" and "V") and increasing the spacing between characters that don't.

  1. Select the text that you want to change.

  2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.

    What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

    Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

  3. Select the Kerning for fonts check box, and then enter the point size in the Points and above box.

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Stretch or scale the text horizontally

When you scale the text, you change the shapes of the characters by percentages. You can scale text by stretching it or by compressing it.

  1. Select the text that you want to stretch or compress.

  2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.

    What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

    Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

  3. In the Scale box, enter the percentage that you want.

    Percentages above 100 percent stretch the text. Percentages below 100 percent compress the text.

Change the line spacing

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.

  1. Find the style you're using in the Styles gallery on the Home tab.

  2. Right-click the style you want to change and select Modify.

    What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?
  3. Near the center of the dialog box you'll find the line spacing buttons that let you select single, 1.5x or double spaced. Choose the spacing you want to apply and click OK.

    What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs 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. The Line spacing drop-down lets you select or set more specific line spacing.

What is the most precise way to increase the amount of white space between two paragraphs in Word?

For more information on modifying styles in Word, see: Customize styles in Word.

See also

  • Using Styles in Word - a free, 10-minute video training course.

  • Change the font size

  • Set page margins

  • Align text left or right, center text, or justify text on a page

  • Change the line spacing in Word

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To format paragraph spacing: On the Home tab, click the Line and Paragraph Spacing command. Click Add Space Before Paragraph or Remove Space After Paragraph from the drop-down menu. In our example, we'll select Add Space Before Paragraph. The paragraph spacing will change in the document.

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Paragraph spacing determines the amount of space above or below a paragraph. When you press Enter to start a new paragraph, the spacing is carried over to the next paragraph, but you can change the settings for each paragraph.

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Select your text or WordArt. Click Home > Text Effects. Click the effect you want. For more choices, point to Outline, Shadow, Reflection, or Glow, and then click the effect you want.

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Explanation: AutoFormat As You Type automatically configures text for designated text as you type. For example, AutoFormat As You Type will change "straight" quotes to “smart” quotes, superscript ordinals from 4th to 4th, change double hyphens -- to dashes –, and format bulleted lists.