

To change the type of font within a document or for the entire document, simply select the text to be formatted, then select your new font. You can click on the arrow in that window to display other types of font available to use. In the picture above, the current type of font is Calibiri. Now, on the probably rare occasion you need to have a double-spaced line in Word document, you can just hit Enter twice.The type of font you're currently using will appear. For me, I chose all documents since that’s the way I prefer to create documents. You’ll get a little question that pops up asking if you want to set this as the default for just THIS document, or for all Word documents. Then, at the bottom click on “Set as Default”. In the Spacing section, make sure the “Before” and “After” numbers are set to zero. In the Paragraph section, find the drop down menu called Line and Paragraph spacing and click the drop-down menu, then choose “Line Spacing Options”. With the Home tab selected, look over to the Paragraph section. Next time you open a new blank Word document, it will still be double spaced. But that only solves the problem for the document you are typing right now. This will cause that line return to just be a single space so you won’t have that big gap. The quick, “right now” fix is this: hold down the Shift key while you’re tapping the Enter key. To fix this, there are a couple of options. Why does Microsoft set that as the default? Are there that many people who are actually double-spacing every document they create? No idea. You open a new blank document and start typing a letter, and the first time you hit Enter, there’s that huge space between the lines and it looks like you are double-spacing the whole thing. It’s one of the big frustrations with MS Word – you hit the Enter key, and the next line in your document is a DOUBLE space down from the last line. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS
