In Word 2003 and earlier, the line-spacing settings were tucked away inside a formatting menu. But if you use Word 2007 or 2010, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find a line-spacing control ...

In Microsoft Word, you can adjust the line spacing to be the same across the entire document or change it for specific parts. Launch Microsoft Word and open the document you want to modify.

The easiest way to adjust line spacing in Word is to mouse-select the target text (or press CTRL+A to . select ALL text) followed by . pressing CTRL while simultaneously pressing 1 or 2 or 5.

Line spacing is the distance between lines. In earlier versions of Word, the default line spacing distance is "1.0," or single-spacing, which stacks lines closely together with minimal space between.

Q:I do a lot of writing where I have to double-space the text. To do that, I go into the Format menu in Microsoft Word, choose Paragraph and set the line spacing to double.