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Use Fixed-en­ter a mea­sure­ment in the 120–145% range. Se­lect­ing Height lets you choose from Fixed or At Least. It is lost on me.) I rec­om­mend al­ways leav­ing Spacing at 1.0 and just set­ting your line spac­ing with Height. (The ben­e­fit of this com­pli­ca­tion may be ap­pre­ci­ated by Word­Per­fect fans. Line spac­ing in Word­Per­fect is the Height value mul­ti­plied by the Spacing value. Word­Per­fect Format → Line → Height and Spacing. (Not 1.20–1.45-as noted above, Word uses pe­cu­liar line-spac­ing math.) Never use At least, be­cause that gives Word per­mis­sion to ad­just your line spac­ing unpredictably. To get line spac­ing in the 120–145% range, use a Multiple value of 1.03–1.24. Multiple is also ac­cept­able-en­ter line spac­ing as a dec­i­mal. Don’t use these-they miss the tar­get zone of 120–145%. Single, 1.5 lines, and Double are equiv­a­lent to about 117%, 175%, and 233% line spac­ing, con­trary to what their names sug­gest. Exactly is best-en­ter a fixed mea­sure­ment. Word Right-click in the text and se­lect Paragraph from the menu.

To get ac­cu­rate spac­ing, you should al­ways set it your­self, exactly. Mi­crosoft Word’s “dou­ble” spac­ing, for in­stance, is about 15% looser, and it varies de­pend­ing on the font. So if you’re re­quired to use a 12-point font, dou­ble line spac­ing means 24 points.Ĭu­ri­ously, the so-called “dou­ble” line-spac­ing op­tion in your word proces­sor doesn’t pro­duce true dou­ble line spac­ing. On a type­writer, each line is the height of the font, thus dou­ble spac­ing means twice the font size. That’s why court rules usu­ally call for dou­ble-spaced lines. Most courts adopted their line-spac­ing stan­dards in the type­writer era. The tra­di­tional term for line spac­ing is lead­ing (rhymes with bed­ding), so named be­cause tra­di­tional print shops put strips of lead be­tween lines of type to in­crease ver­ti­cal space. But dou­ble-spac­ing is still looser than optimal. Sin­gle-spaced type­writ­ten text is dense and hard to read. There­fore, line-spac­ing choices were lim­ited to one, two, or more lines at a time. Orig­i­nally, a type­writer’s platen could only move the pa­per ver­ti­cally in units of a sin­gle line. These habits are ob­so­lete type­writer habits. Most writ­ers use ei­ther dou­ble-spaced lines or sin­gle-spaced lines-noth­ing in be­tween-be­cause those are the op­tions pre­sented by word processors. Line spac­ing is the ver­ti­cal dis­tance be­tween lines of text.