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This document provides instructions for changing spacing between characters, words, and lines in Microsoft Word. It describes how to expand or condense character spacing evenly, kern character pairs, stretch or compress text horizontally, and change line spacing by modifying paragraph styles. The steps include selecting text, opening the font dialog box, and specifying spacing amounts or percentages.

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MS Word Rule

This document provides instructions for changing spacing between characters, words, and lines in Microsoft Word. It describes how to expand or condense character spacing evenly, kern character pairs, stretch or compress text horizontally, and change line spacing by modifying paragraph styles. The steps include selecting text, opening the font dialog box, and specifying spacing amounts or percentages.

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Change the spaces between text

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You can change the spacing between characters of


text for selected text or for particular characters. In
addition, you can stretch or compress an entire
paragraph to make it fit and look the way that you
want it to.

Change the spacing between characters

Selecting Expanded or Condensed alters the spacing


between all selected letters by the same amount.
Kerning alters the spacing between particular pairs of
letters - in some cases reducing and in other cases
expanding the space depending upon the letters.

Expand or condense the space evenly between all the


selected characters
1. Select the text that you want to change.
2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box
Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.
Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

3. In the Spacing box,
click Expanded or Condensed, and then specify
how much space you want in the By box.

Kern the characters that are above a particular size


Kerning refers to the way spacing between two
specific characters is adjusted. The idea is to give a
better looking result by reducing the spacing
between characters that fit together nicely (such as
"A" and "V") and increasing the spacing between
characters that don't.

1. Select the text that you want to change.


2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box
Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.

Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

3. Select the Kerning for fonts check box, and then


enter the point size in the Points and above box.
Stretch or scale the text horizontally

When you scale the text, you change the shapes of


the characters by percentages. You can scale text by
stretching it or by compressing it.

1. Select the text that you want to stretch or


compress.
2. On the Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box
Launcher, and then click the Advanced tab.
Note: If you're using Word 2007 the tab is called Character Spacing.

3. In the Scale box, enter the percentage that you


want.

Percentages above 100 percent stretch the text.


Percentages below 100 percent compress the text.

Change the line spacing


To increase or decrease the amount of vertical space
between lines of text within a paragraph, the best
method is to modify the style the paragraph uses.

1. Find the style you're using in the Styles gallery on


the Home tab.
2. Right-click the style you want to change and
select Modify.
3. Near the center of the dialog box you'll find the
line spacing buttons that let you select single, 1.5x
or double spaced. Choose the spacing you want to
apply and click OK.

If you'd like to apply more specific line spacing to the


style, clickthe Format button at the bottom left
corner of the Modify Style dialog box and
select Paragraph. The Line spacing drop-down lets
you select or set more specific line spacing.
For more information on modifying styles in Word,
see: Customize styles in Word.

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