How to change Line Spacing & Paragraph spacing in Google Docs

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How to change Line Spacing & Paragraph spacing in Google Docs

In our last lesson we increased font size, and added some styling and color. In this lesson we will experiment with different line spacings to see if we can make our documents even more readable.
Let’s head over to google docs and launch our project document.
Before we get started, take good look at this document. It doesn’t look bad, but each line of text is pretty close together. We are going to add just enough space to make it easer to read.

Before we can change our line spacing, I need to select all the text. I can do this by going to the edit menu and choosing ‘select all’. Now that all the text is highlighted, go up to the tool bar and click on the button with the vertical arrows beside some text. This button!
Note! If you don’t see this icon, it’s likely you are using a smaller browser window and it’s under the “more” button.
You can also find ‘line spacing’ under the format menu. Notice how it says I am currently at single spacing. Let’s change this to double spacing to see how it changes things.
Woh. That change it made worse. Double spacing leaves way too much white space. Let’s go back to the line spacing button and try using 1.15
Now that looks better! I’m happy with how the line spacing looks. It’s not too squished and there isn’t tons of white space. In the words of Goldie Locks… “It’s juuust. right!
So that’s all there is to line spacing —but before we finish this tutorial, quickly click on the line spacing button again and take a look at the custom spacing option. In some cases you may want to change the space before or after a line of text. This area lets you have full control over how much space each line takes up. Take a moment to play around with some different numbers to see what happens!

If you don’t like what you tried, you can always click the Undo button to go back a step or two.
And that is how line spacing works in google docs. In the next lesson we will add some bullets and numbered lists. See you soon!

© Michael Kocher 2015

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For a second I thought I was stuck, but after watching this video it helped me a lot! Thank you!

winter_crystxlz

Does anyone know how to get rid of invisible spacing on google docs? every time I type it skips entire lines when I press the space bar and I cant type anything in between and nothing is highlighted in the control station telling you why it does it.

JackJonValois

Your lessons are very clear and helpful. Thanks, Michael!

jamesarcher

I have settings on single lines here but Google Docs still defaults to double for some reason

RandomRamblerOnYouTube

WOW!!!! Thank you!!! I confess I like WORD better, but your video really was easy to understand. Thank you so much again!

alanamakaya

Thanks for showing us the paragraph spacing option. A lot of Google Docs videos overlook it

ajaym

Thank you so much! This was very helpful to me. When I first used google docs it was confusing... :D

stars_shadow

I need two spaces between paragraphs but i cant seem to work it? any advise would be great

Thedragonzxcvb

Thank you very much sir for sharing your experience and knowledge with us.

Have a healthy wealthy and happy life.

mohammadirfan

Mine says it's single spaced, but it's not. How do I fix that?

lindseywalters

To the point and just what I needed to know! Thanks so much!

reenality

Is there a way to decrease line spacing less than 0? I need a condensed document

amandaosgood

Thank you so much!! This helped so much :DD

singingxart

Mine doesn't look like this or have those options to select under edit and/or format. I'm not sure what to do.
Thank you for the cntrl+A tip

michelleham