Double-space lines in a document - Help and How-to

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Double-space lines in a document

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

Select the text that you want to change, or click Select All on the Edit menu.
On the Formatting toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), point to Line Spacing .
If the Formatting toolbar is not visible, on the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Formatting.
Click the arrow next to Line Spacing , and then click 2.0.

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