I’m not sure why Microsoft thought it a good idea to turn off white space by default in Word 2010 – but now that you know how to bring it back, you won’t have to deal with this problem again. In the dialogue box that opens, click the Display selection and under Page display options, make sure that “Show white space between pages in Print Layout View” is ENABLED (or checked): Go to Word options (click the File tab at the top left of the screen - next to Home and you will see the following menu on the left-hand side of the screen):Ģ. To turn it back on - or to make Word 2010 act like older versions of Word and show you everything in Single Page view (isn’t that why it’s called Single Page view in the first place? I mean if they wanted to let you show a truncated or “white-space free” page view then why not just add “No Whitespace” as an option instead of making everyone scratch their heads?), you can do the following:ġ.
Unfortunately Word 2010 does this “white-space removal” by default. In Word, to remove space before or after paragraph, you can use the utilities in Line and Paragraph Spacing drop-down list. So you can see that the white space on this section page “Part I, Introduction, Overview and Goals” was truncated. I could still see my normal pages in Page Width view, but in Single Page view my “pages” looked like little clippings - which I don’t like. So basically anywhere that I had white space present, Word removed the white space. So I’m writing my fabulous eBook ( A Digital Workflow for Classical Music and Opera CDs) for my new website, Classical Weekly (your source for weekly introductions to classical music) and when I went to Single Page view - which I’ve used for years and years - Word apparently truncated all of my white space.
If you wish to adjust the default Word 2010 settings so that all of your new documents use double spacing, then read this article.I’ve been using Word for more than 10 years, and I recently upgraded to Office 2010 and Word 2010. Be sure to save your document after changing this option. Step 4: Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button in the Paragraph section of the Office ribbon, then click the 2.0 option.Īll of the lines in your document should now be using the 2.0 line spacing. If there seems to be larger than normal spaces between the words when typing in Word 2010, go to: File> Options > Advanced > Display > Click on: Optimize character positioning for layout rather than readability. Step 3: Click the Home tab at the top of the window. Our article continues below with additional information and pictures for each of these steps. Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button. Select the Home tab at the top of the window. Step 2: Press Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select all of the content in the document. Click inside the document and press Ctrl + A to select everything. This can be especially helpful when you have copied and pasted information from various websites into your document.
If you find that there is simply too much incorrect formatting throughout your document, then you may want to consider clearing all of the formatting. The steps in this article will assume that you have already typed your document, but that the document is not double-spaced. Also, part of my text disappears and it’s a guessing game trying to figure out where he end of the line is located since I can’t see the text so that I try to advance it out to where it can be seen. The tutorial below will show you how to quickly select all of the content in your document, then modify that content so that all of the lines are double-spaced.Ĭhange a Document to Double Spacing in Word 2010 I’m not able to get the single spacing to truly be single spacing, I select single spacing but there is still 1.5 (it looks like) spacing between the lines in my column two. It is common for students to increase line spacing to artificially increase the length of a document, but going from single spacing to double spacing can help to ease eye strain for the reader.įortunately Microsoft realizes that line spacing is an element of a document that needs to be adjusted, and the method for changing this setting is easily accessible in Word 2010. One of the settings that is specified in these requirements often involves the amount of line spacing that you use. Your school or place of employment may have specific formatting that it wants you to use when you create a document.
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