

This is the best way to adjust your text spacing or your text color because of course you can always go back and change your paragraph style at any time if you want to update it. It tightens up the body text throughout the document. You can really see what a big difference this makes. Let's move the dialog box out of the way so we can really see this. Now let's go ahead and turn the preview check box off to see before and after. For big headline text you can tighten it up a lot more. When you're working with normal paragraph text you generally only want to change this in small values like -2 or -3%. And now I can change the desired to -3% too. If I want to make the desired value smaller here, I have to first change the minimum because desired can't be lower than the minimum. So that changed the word spacing, the spaces between the words.

Because the preview check box is turned on in the dialog box you can see it immediately affects all the text in my document.

I'll select that and once again I'll change my desired word spacing to 85%. That lets me edit that style and here I have the justification pane. So I'll click cancel here and instead I'm going to double click on the paragraph style here in the paragraph style panel. If I want to change all the text in my document, I don't want to change it one paragraph at a time, I want to change the paragraph style. Now, when I turn on the preview check box you can see that it tightened up that paragraph, but only that one paragraph. But if I want to tighten all of this text up a little bit, I'll lower this desired setting for word spacing to say 85%. You see how the word spacing desired value is 100%? That means 100% of what the font designer said that the spacing should be. In this case, I want to focus on the first two. Word spacing, letter spacing and glyph scaling. And you can see in the top of this dialog box there are three main categories. But that's fine, the justification dialog box works on any text. You can see that this text is all ragged right, or sometimes called left aligned. Now, this might seem weird because this text isn't even justified. Then, I'll go to the control panel fly out menu that's way over here on the right side of the control panel, and I'll choose Justification. I don't have to select the entire paragraph, because I'm changing paragraph formatting. And now, I'm just going to place my cursor anywhere inside this paragraph. Here, let me undo this with a command Z or a control Z on Windows. But if you're trying to change the overall spacing of your text, which is sometimes called the text color, then you should probably use the justification dialog box instead. Now, in general changing tracking or kerning is fine when you're just changing a word or a sentence or something like that. And while there's nothing technically wrong with doing that, I want to show you a better way. I have this problem in the Office 365 versions of Word 2013 and Word 2016 (I did not test it in Word 2010). For example, I'll change tracking to say -10, that tightens it up. I found no way to create tables with 0 pt paragraph spacing after modifying the standard paragraph spacing of the Normal text style from 0 pt before and 8 pt after to some other value. Most InDesign users would change this by selecting all the text in a paragraph like this and then changing the kerning or tracking value up at the control panel. I mean, it's fine, but I just think it would look better if the spacing between each word and maybe even between each letter were a little tighter. If this is a new, blank document then you can skip this step.- This text spacing is too loose. Step 2: Click inside the document, then press Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select everything. Step 1: Open your document in Microsoft Word. The steps in this article were performed in the Microsoft Word for Office 365 version of the application, but will work in most other versions as well.
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How to Use Single Spacing in Word for Office 365 Our guide below will show you how to single space in Word by selecting all of the text in the document and adjusting the line spacing setting. If your current document is double spaced, or if it appears to have spacing that is more or less than the single spacing you need, then you may be looking for a way to adjust that. Our article continues below with additional information and pictures for each of these steps.Ī document in Microsoft Word can have a lot of different formatting options, including the amount of space between lines.
