Everyone has their favourite line spacing! Some like as much information as possible crammed into a page and go for single line spacing, whilst others like their white space and go for double (or even TRIPLE!) line spacing. Line spacing can make a document easy to read, or can make it an absolute nightmare to edit.
Lets have a look at how easy it is to play around with line spacing in Word 2007.
To change Line Spacing in Word 2007:
- On the home tab of the ribbon, look for the paragraph group. Then click on the Line Spacing button, as shown in the image below.
- Select your desired line spacing. By default in Word 2007 the line spacing is set to 1.15. From this menu you can select to have your line spacing set to 1, 1.15, 1.5, 2, 2.5 or 3. If you want a more granular line spacing (say 1.63, 1.05 or maybe 12pt or 23pt or anything like that), you can click on the Line Spacing Options item in the Line Spacing Menu.
Below is an example of what each of the various line spacing options look like.
So there you have it… how to control line spacing in Word 2007!
’till next time,
TNP 
tags: desktop publishing, help, line spacing, tutorial, word 2007
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Howdy,
How do you control line spacing between bullet points? I can’t get it to change from double line spacing to single. The rest of the document changes to single, but not the bullet points. Any help is appreciated.
Schwarz
How to change the default line spoacing for envelope printing?
It’s still a problem. Even though I was able to change to single spacing which I needed for a resume, if the lines don’t wrap or are very short, they will not single space, they space at 1.5 or better. How does one get around this?
Linda,
Word is treating those single lines as paragraphs. Which means that it is by default adding a paragraph space after each line (which is why it looks like 1.5 line spacing).
How do you get rid of that? Simple. Select the paragraph. Then go to the same place in the menu you are using to change the line spacing (Home tab, Paragraph Group, Line Spacing drop down menu). At the bottom you will see an option that says “Remove Space After Paragraph”.
Click that and you should have your problem solved.
TNP
Thank you, really helped me.
Thank you, so much! I couldn’t figure how to change the spacing.
Now I can relax,
and I no longer have to copy the formatting from old 2003 documents.
THANKS, TNP!
Dear The New Paperclip
Thank you for going to all the trouble of setting up this website. Your explanations have been a savior in my last minutes in submitting a paper. In past versions of Office Word I was able to find the line spacing function, but found myself scratching my head real hard trying to find the same function in Word 2007. With your help, the problem is solved and I the more familiar I become with Word 2007 the more I am liking it.
Thanks again TNP!
Darren
Tokyo
Thanks.
At last a simple awnser to a simple question!
Hello!
How do you change the line spacing in the cells in a table in Office Word 2007? I am having trouble changing the spacing inside tables from several spaces to “single space”.
Thanks,
Oscar
How to do incremental line spacing in MS ppt 2007.
IN ms ppt 2003 there was this neat button to push and increase line spacing bit by bit, that was really very handy. I cannot find this option in ms ppt 2007. Can you point this out to me. NB i am familiar with the explanations above.
thanks
willy
my gosh didn’t think to get a quick answer such as this incredible spell wooow thanks god bye
i had the same problem as linda, TNP,you’re a life saver…not the round candies but..yeah…you know what i mean lol THANKS!
Thank you. the ‘remove space after paragraph’ issue has been my nemesis for some time now. You have made me one happy fellow.
How do I change line spacing for printing of envelopes?
Why the hell does MS start with an unusable default line spacing. Every damn time I start typing in Word 2007, it puts an extra double line. Who the hell types like this? So this is just a stupid default and totally unusable in the first place!
I think Microsoft needs to still do some damn usability testing..this is so ridiculous to add that extra return after a line. Just like the previous poster complained about. I mean how can the MS team miss something or come to the conclusion that this is ok when it’s just bizarre.
So double spacing is now basically madatory or waste time trying to fix the mess. It’s far easier just to use someone else’s word processing program. There are a lot of other companies who actually care about their customers…..