When the Word document is beautifully designed, it’s more pleasant to work with it. Most likely, no one will argue with such a philosophy. Beautiful design in this case is called formatting. This concept includes a lot, but in the article we will consider only the intervals in the Word. Let's talk about what it is, where their settings are and how to change them.
Extra paragraph
Before talking about intervals in Word, I want to remember what looks like knocked down interval settings, but it is not. Many people may find a double paragraph for a high spacing between paragraphs. Moreover, everyone can make such a mistake, because the paragraph does not visually stand out and you need to check it only yourself.
But you can take advantage of some trick and visualize all paragraphs using the corresponding button. How it looks, you can observe in the image below. Look for this button in the "Home" tab.
As soon as you click it, various characters will appear in your document. We will not list all of them - there is simply no sense. And the paragraph looks like this - "¶". To get rid of extra paragraphs, view the entire document in the non-printable character mode and delete the extra "¶" characters.
Set default intervals
A problem like extra paragraphs is, of course, a rarity. Most often, the culprits are incorrectly specified intervals in the Word. Initially, we will look at how to change the intervals so that the changes remain forever. And then we’ll discuss how to make changes locally.
So, to set the default settings, you need to open the program. Now on the toolbar, find the column "Paragraph" (in the "Home" tab). There will be an arrow in the lower right corner - click on it to get into the settings we need. It is possible to enter the “Paragraph” settings in a different way by clicking RMB in any area of the document and selecting the “Paragraph” line in the menu.
In the settings window, make sure that the tab on which you are located is called "Indents and intervals." In this case, we are only interested in the area in the window called "Interval". It has the ability to change both line spacing and paragraph spacing. In the first case, you need to interact with the drop-down list on the right side of the window. In the second case, on the left side.
As soon as you change the line spacing or paragraph spacing in the Word document, click the Default button. This is necessary so that the changes are saved by the template - in this case you do not have to change these parameters every time.
Change the line spacing in two clicks
We figured out how to set intervals by default in Word, but, as you can see, this process is quite long, and if you need to change intervals frequently in different areas of the document, it can take a long time.
Now we will talk how to change the line spacing in a few seconds.
This is done very simply. You need to click on the corresponding "Interval" icon on the "Home" tab. You can see its location in the picture below.
A drop-down list will open in which you can set the interval you need. Before that, do not forget to select the text area in which you want to make changes.
Change the paragraph spacing in two clicks
How to change the line spacing, we learned, now let's talk about how to quickly change the spacing between paragraphs. This is done on the tab "Design". There, in the "Document Formatting" column, find the corresponding icon. It is called "Spacing between paragraphs." Interaction with him occurs similarly to the previous method. In the drop-down list, select the value you need, before that, do not forget to select the desired area of the text.
That's all I would like to talk about in this article. Of course, in the Word program, the spacing between words can also be changed, but this is a topic for another article.