Single-space your document Select the top of the document. Go to Design > Paragraph Spacing. Choose No Paragraph Space. Go to Design > Paragraph Spacing. Select Default or the style name …

Select the paragraphs you want to change, or press Ctrl+A to select the whole document. Go to Home > Paragraph > Line Spacing. Choose 1 for single spacing.

Choose the number of line spaces you want or select Line Spacing Options, and then select the options you want under Spacing. To change the spacing before or after each of the paragraphs in the text …

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.

Change the amount of space between lines of text or paragraphs for all or part of a document.

Change the spacing between every single line by staying on Indents and Spacing> Spacing> Line spacing and choosing Single, 1.5 lines, or Double for a full double-space between lines.

Don't want to change the spacing in the whole document? Select anywhere in the paragraph you want to change. Go to Layout, and under Spacing, select the up or down arrows to adjust the distance before …

Select Line Spacing Options and then choose the options you want under Spacing. To change the spacing before or after the selected paragraphs, select the arrow next to Before or After and enter …

You can double-space all or part of a Word document. To double-space the whole document, go to Design > Paragraph Spacing, and choose Double. Tip: To double-space only part of the document, …

Word automatically breaks the text at a space or a hyphen at the end of a line. To keep two words or a hyphenated word together on one line, you can use a nonbreaking space or nonbreaking hyphen …