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Adjusting line spacing

Adjusting line spacing - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Adjusting line spacing

One bit of our paragraph formatting that can really affect the readability of your documents is line spacing. That's what we are going to look at right now as we continue working with are No Obstacles HR Document. If you've jumped to this lesson, need to get caught up, go to the Chapter4 folder of your Exercise Files, and open up No Obstacles HR 2. And we are on Page 2 here, where we do see a number of paragraphs. Two of those paragraphs are much longer than the others, which are single lines. But each of these might have at least one return after them. And as you can see, the line spacing, which is the spacing between the actual lines, and the paragraphs, is maybe a little bit compressed. In other words, if we were to space it out some more, it might be a little easier to read, and this can be very important, especially for longer documents, where an audience has to spend a lot of time looking at the pages of your document. So, let's see what we have first, and then let's make some…

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