Learn how to change spacing between words or letters in Word by following these steps and increase your documents readability and visual appeal.

Microsoft Word defaults to a spacing of 1.08 lines, which is slightly larger than single-spaced. Within paragraphs, a space-and-a-half is best for line spacing, according to UX standards.

You can double space in Word for an entire document or selected paragraphs to increase the amount of space between your lines of text.

Double-spacing makes text look neater and easier to read. It's required for a lot of documents (especially assignments) so here's how to turn it on.

Select the "Paragraph" group on Word's Home tab to open your paragraph settings. Choose the "Indents and Spacing" tab, then select the drop-down box below the Line Spacing header to reduce your ...

You can also set the spacing between paragraphs in a single document or in the template. By default, Word 2011 inserts 1 1/2 spaces between paragraphs.

As for paragraph spacing, historically, word processors were programmed to require pressing ENTER twice in order to put a blank line between paragraphs.