Line Spacing

Quick reference

• 00:04 Let's talk about line spacing options on the Home ribbon in the Paragraph group.
• 00:09 There's a button right over here when I float my mouse, it says Line and
• 00:13 Paragraph Spacing, and then gives a description.
• 00:15 Choose how much space appears between lines of text or between paragraphs.
• 00:20 So as you're reading the letter, the whitespace between the lines helps you
• 00:24 make out the difference between the next line, but we can set those.
• 00:27 Now this first one, by default, is set at 1.15, that's one and an eighth spaces.
• 00:34 So there's just enough whitespace to make out the lines.
• 00:37 Let's go ahead and click into the second paragraph and go right back up here.
• 00:41 Watch what happens to the second paragraph as I float my mouse on the single space.
• 00:48 The one and eighth, the one and a half space, double space,
• 00:53 two and a half space, triple space.
• 00:56 Now you could even go further, to Line Spacing Options.
• 00:59 And when I activate that button, even though this says Paragraph, Indents and
• 01:04 Spacing, with some advanced features for indents and spacing,
• 01:07 line spacing is right over here.
• 01:09 I could literally come over here and type a 5.
• 01:12 And when I hit OK, it would be a quintuple spacing.
• 01:15 Not sure why I would want that.
• 01:18 So, very quickly, I'm going to set that back to single spacing.
• 01:22 As you can see, I have a tip right down here at the bottom.
• 01:24 Try the keyboard command Ctrl+1 for single space.
• 01:28 How about that for quick, right?
• 01:30 Ctrl+2 for double space.
• 01:33 Ctrl+5 for quintuple, now it actually means 1.5 spacing.
• 01:38 I'll go ahead and tap through those, and watch what happens to that paragraph.
• 01:43 Start with Ctrl+1 for single space, Ctrl+5 for 1.5, Ctrl+2 for double.
• 01:49 Now, those are the only ones that have control keys attach to them.
• 01:54 So if you want more, you need to go up to the button and choose something different.
• 01:59 Okay, let's click into the bottom one because I want to blow your mind here.
• 02:02 This is really crazy what you can do.
• 02:04 Click into the bottom paragraph,
• 02:06 float my mouse up onto the Line Spacing button on the Home ribbon.
• 02:10 I'm going to go back into Line Spacing Options.
• 02:13 And in here, remember where it says line spacing, you have a drop down.
• 02:17 We can do Single, 1.5, Double, At least a certain amount, Exactly, or Multiple.
• 02:21 I'm going to leave it set to Multiple.
• 02:24 But instead of 3, I wonder what 0.5 will look like.
• 02:28 I wonder how closely I can get these to line up, or if they'll overlap each other.
• 02:33 Let's go ahead and click OK and see what happens.
• 02:36 Hmm, not sure I'd want to do that, but the point is, you can do it.
• 02:40 So if you want to get rid of as much white space as possible,
• 02:44 you'd probably just go into the Line Spacing button > Line Spacing Options.
• 02:48 How about let's try a 0.8, see what that happens, hit OK.
• 02:51 Can we still see the words?
• 02:53 Yes, but there's not much space between them.
• 02:56 Right up above, this one is Ctrl+1, single space, and look how much closer this is.
• 03:02 The only reason I would ever use something like that is if maybe I had
• 03:06 small print at the bottom of a letter and I really had to just jam it in there.
• 03:10 I might remove all whitespace between the lines with a 0.8.
• 03:14 So it's not something you're going to use a lot, but
• 03:17 it's kind of cool to know you have that option.
• 03:19 Okay, please practice this, especially the Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, and Ctrl+5.

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