Spacing On Word

[Scarlett]

How can I reduce the spacing between lines on Word? When I press enter the gap it gives me is massive and I want the lines to be only a bit spaced between each other. I can't seem to find how to alter it!

[goodgoalie]

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/change-the-line-spacing-in-word-1970e24a-441c-473d-918f-c6805237fbf4

[Lie-in King]

Click the small arrow next to "Paragraph" - in the window that opens, use the drop-down list to select your preferred line spacing.

[Lie-in King]

Or that :-)

[Scarlett]

Hmm I still can't get it to work. Any idea which of the things on the small arrow controls the space between lines?

[Scarlett]

I'm using Word 13

[Lie-in King]

goodgoalie's link pretty much covers the options & includes the bit I meant, which is under "Change the line spacing in a portion of the document" (point 3)

[bednobs]

If you already have some written highlight it first

[Scarlett]

Nope still not getting it I'm afraid. I don't want to alter the default space between lines, I want to alter how big the space is when I press enter and go to the next line down. At the moment the space is too big so the lines seem to to too far apart.

[Kathyan]

Thanks for that Lie in King. It worked for me but I have 365 2016.

[Kathyan]

Scarlett, you'll have to alter the default or it won't work.

[johnny37]

Not sure this is what you want but i have two choices in the toolbar
under styles. Normal gives me half a space and the top of the second line is cut in half. Dont know why anyone would want that. I shall have to look my my default. Space gives me no space between lines.

[Old_Geezer]

Paragraph spacing is what you want. It'll be in formatting paragraphs somewhere if you want to change it on each document/paragraph. To default it to be used on new documents you need to edit and save default.dot, or it's equivalent in version 13.