paragraph line spacing

[Island Girl]

How do I set up a toolbar that will show the line spacing in a selected
paragraph? I'm working in a long document and I know there has to be a
better way than right clicking on the paragraph and taking the usual route to
find out the line spacing.

Thanks for being there and helping me out so very often!

 

[Stefan Blom]

As far as I know, there is no direct equivalence to the "Spacing" area of the
Paragraph dialog box (if that's what you are asking). But you can add the
buttons for Single, 1.5, and Double spacing to any toolbar.

Other options:

- Add a keyboard shortcut to the FormatParagraph command so that you can quickly
display the Paragraph dialog.

- Make use of the Reveal Formatting task pane (press Shift+F1).

 

[Terry Farrell]

Well there is in Word 2010 but I am unable to check if this is available in
Word 2007.

Use the Customise Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) option and choose All Commands.
Scroll down the list of command and you will find

Spacing Before
Spacing After

Add them to your QAT. Now as you click in a paragraph, the little boxes on
the QAT will display the current setting. I hope that is the same for Word
2007.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

In both Word 2007 and Word 2010 there is a Line and Paragraph Spacing button
in the Paragraph section of the Ribbon. If you click on it, it will show
the spacing of the selected paragraph by a tick against the 1.0, 1.15, 1.5,
2.0, 2.5 or 3.0. It also has a button that will take you to the Format
Paragraph dialog and buttons to Add (or Remove if it is there already) Space
Before or After the paragraph.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Terry Farrell]

Doug

The problem I see with the Line and Paragraph Spacing button is that it only
shows the tick mark against the line spacing setting if you use Line units.
If you set (like all good Word users should use) to use the At Least XX pts,
the Line Spacing tick doesn't work (because it only works in Line Units and
not in Points).

I would never use a fixed line height because sometimes ascenders or
descenders can be chopped and I find 1 line too little and 1.5 lines too
much, so it is a pretty useless feature. Perhaps a suggestion for the next
release would be to make the units dynamic with the settings used!

I only recently discovered the Spacing Before and Spacing After buttons, but
I now have the Spacing After permanently on my QAT.

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, you can use Multiple line spacing, which does adjust to the point size
of the text. This allows you to set something between 1 and 1.5; it also
(though this is not obvious) allows you to set less than one line: I often
back off to .99 or .98 lines to fit copy.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

Ohhhhhh, so "multiple" is like em in HTML css (cascading style sheets)
—supposedly very handy and user-setup friendly since relative font size and
spacing specified by em could still be applied when the user specifies a
different.

Why don't they tell us this stuff? Here I thought "multiple" was another MS
misnomer.

But, is "multiple" based on the point size of the font alone or on the point
size plus leading (in Word 120% of the point size)?

Pam

FWIW, you can use Multiple line spacing, which does adjust to the point size
of the text. This allows you to set something between 1 and 1.5; it also
(though this is not obvious) allows you to set less than one line: I often
back off to .99 or .98 lines to fit copy.

Doug

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[Terry Farrell]

Ah. So although 1, 1.5, 2, etc is shown as the progression, you can actually
specify 'At Least 1.35 li'. It converts 1.35 Li to 16.25 pts and the Line
Spacing button still doesn't tick the setting.

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Multiple is based on "single," which includes the leading.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Ohhhhhh, so "multiple" is like em in HTML css (cascading style sheets)
—supposedly very handy and user-setup friendly since relative font size
and
spacing specified by em could still be applied when the user specifies a
different.

Why don't they tell us this stuff? Here I thought "multiple" was another
MS
misnomer.

But, is "multiple" based on the point size of the font alone or on the
point
size plus leading (in Word 120% of the point size)?

Pam

FWIW, you can use Multiple line spacing, which does adjust to the point
size
of the text. This allows you to set something between 1 and 1.5; it also
(though this is not obvious) allows you to set less than one line: I often
back off to .99 or .98 lines to fit copy.

Doug

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on the QAT will display the current setting. I hope that is the same
for
Word 2007.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, "At least" is always in points; "Multiple" is in lines, based on
"Single," so it changes with the point size of the text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

And you can confirm this by setting "Multiple" to 1, which will convert to
"Single."

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
(Message posted via NNTP)

Multiple is based on "single," which includes the leading.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Ohhhhhh, so "multiple" is like em in HTML css (cascading style sheets)
-supposedly very handy and user-setup friendly since relative font size and
spacing specified by em could still be applied when the user specifies a
different.

Why don't they tell us this stuff? Here I thought "multiple" was another MS
misnomer.

But, is "multiple" based on the point size of the font alone or on the point
size plus leading (in Word 120% of the point size)?

Pam

FWIW, you can use Multiple line spacing, which does adjust to the point size
of the text. This allows you to set something between 1 and 1.5; it also
(though this is not obvious) allows you to set less than one line: I often
back off to .99 or .98 lines to fit copy.

Doug

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on the QAT will display the current setting. I hope that is the same for
Word 2007.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Gotcha!

Terry

No, "At least" is always in points; "Multiple" is in lines, based on
"Single," so it changes with the point size of the text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

That makes me a not good Word user then.

I have never found the need to vary from single line spacing.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Terry Farrell]

<g>

tf

 

[Frank Drew Leyda]

That makes me a not good Word user then.

I have never found the need to vary from single line spacing.

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Really !
I use double space all the time.
Ciao.....