#REMOVE PARAGRAPH SPACING BETWEEN LINES IN WORD HOW TO#
To set the amount of space for the option you chose, click the arrows to the right of the pop-up menu. As I discuss on my blog entitled, Tribal Knowledge: Working with Office Interops, one way to divine the inner workings of any office document and how to manage it via the interops is to record a macro of the process needed. By contrast, double-spacing doubles the height of each line. The distance from one line to the next is never less than the value you set, but it may be larger for larger fonts to prevent overlapping text lines.Įxactly: The value sets the precise distance between text baselines, which may result in some overlap.īetween: The value you set increases the space between the lines, instead of increasing the height of the lines. The space between lines is proportional to the font size.Īt least: The distance between lines stays fixed (but lines don’t overlap if the text gets large). Lines: The distance between ascenders (parts of letters that extend to the top of the line) and descenders (parts of letters that extend below the line) stays the same. If the text is in a text box, table, or shape, first click the Text tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the Style button.Ĭlick the disclosure arrow next to Spacing (to open it), click the pop-up menu below Spacing, then choose an option: In the Format sidebar, click the Style button near the top.
If you’re using paragraph styles in your document and want to incorporate the line spacing change in the paragraph style, drag past the last character in the paragraph to include the formatting symbol (it’s invisible until you drag over it). Note: Your changes only apply to the paragraphs or text selected.
If you can’t remove something from a document. 
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Change the Footnotes setting from All Footnotes to Footnote Separator. A mini Footnotes window opens at the bottom of the page:. Once you’re in Draft view, go to the References tab then click Show Notes. You must be in Draft view to do this ( View tab > Draft). You must have at least one footnote in your document before you can do the steps below. You can’t get rid of the the empty paragraph using normal deletion methods either. It’s that empty paragraph that annoys a lot of people - it just adds unwanted space in front of the page’s footnotes, when there’s already a visual separator in the partial line. The footnote separator line and the empty paragraph are styled as ‘Normal’, so if you’ve adjusted the paragraph spacing (leading) above and/or below in the style, you may get way more space than you need, as shown in the screenshot below. When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.
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