Use the Before command to add space before a paragraph.

To add space after a paragraph, use the After command as highlighted below. Multiple is what you should use to enter line-spacing values that aren't listed in the Line Spacing dropdown list, which we showed you earlier. If you want to set the line spacing to 4 in the At box, choose Multiple.Īs we've already said, if you want to start a new paragraph, you just press the Enter key on your keyboard. But what if you want to add more space between paragraphs? Of course, you can push the Enter key more than once. Yet why bother when you can also set spacing between paragraphs. You will then see the preset line spacing that you can apply to the document or a portion of the document.Ģ.0 represents double space. 1.0 represents single space. If you don't see the spacing you want, click Line Spacing Options.Įnter your values for line spacing in the At box, then choose a line spacing method, as described below:Īt Least is a minimum value. However, Word can ignore this value and add more space if it's necessary so it can make room for bigger fonts or graphics that appear on the same line as the text.Įxactly means Word doesn't adjust spacing. It gives the exact line spacing that you specify. Next, go to the Home tab, then to the Paragraph group. Click the button. To set line spacing, select the text for which you want to change the line spacing. When adding space between lines, we're going to use lines as our measure. Later in this lesson, we will use points to add space between paragraphs. Our font size is 11 points. We want the space between each line to equal the size of the text, but we also want to add a little extra spacing. If we measured the line spacing by points, our spacing might be 12 points. Line spacing can be measured by lines or points. The line spacing for this document is set at 1.15. This means that there is 1.15 lines between one line of text and the next. When you change the line spacing, you change the space that appears between every line of text in a paragraph. To align text, first select it in your document. Here's what happens when we justify text:

Justified text is used in newspapers, because it gives a clean look to columns. Whenever you justify text, the text appears as a block with the text aligned to both the left and right sides of the document.

The following text, selected from this lesson, is justified so that it is aligned between the left and right margins, adding space between letters if necessary. It gives the document a clean look. On the other side of the right align button is the justify button. In the above picture, the center alignment button is highlighted. To the left of it is the left align button – and to the right, the right align button. The buttons or commands for aligning text are located under the Home tab in the Paragraph group, as shown below. This is text that is aligned to the right. This is an example of text that is aligned to the left. You can either do one of these things to a portion of text, such as a paragraph, or to the entire document. As with all word processing programs, you can either left, right, center or justify your text and paragraphs.

Word 2016 word count for each paragraph