


Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing tool in the Paragraph group.To change this setting, follow these steps: Word is free to increase spacing beyond what you specify, but it cannot reduce it. This setting allows you to specify the minimum line spacing for the paragraph. If you don't want this to occur, you can use the At Least line spacing setting. The effect of the default setting is that if you end up with a line that has nothing but small type on it, then the spacing for that line will be less than for the other lines in the paragraph. Thus, if the largest font size used on a particular line is 20 pt, then the line spacing for that line will be 24 pt. Word's definition of "single" means that the spacing is 120% of the largest font size or element on each individual line. This means line spacing will be adjusted, automatically, as a "single" line. Typically, the default spacing type (as specified in the Line Spacing field of the Paragraph formatting dialog box) is Single. This final screenshot has what zero points after and single spacing looks like.There are several methods Word can use for line spacing. The following screenshot I changed the Word document example to zero points after using the Page Layout tab–>Paragraph group–>after section. Let’s now look at a document with the default settings. To open this, click the tiny arrow pointing down in the corner of the Paragraph group of the Home tab in either Word 2007 or Word 2010. The first screen shot you see here is a dialog box of the default paragraph settings. Of course you can change that distance by changing the points after as you will see in my following screen shots. Got it, great, I’m glad you asked how many inches are in 10 points. Alright, so what happens every time you hit the enter key in Word now is that the insertion point will move down 10 points. What you might not know is that 72 points equals 1 inch. You are used to points every time you change the font size ( example Arial 12 points).

Let me first start by explaining what is a point. For example, in Word 2003 it was set to zero points after and single line spacing. This is much different than the previous versions of Word. The default paragraph setting for Word 2007 or Word 2010 is 10 points of space after a paragraph and 1.15 line spacing within a paragraph.
