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Change Line Spacing in Microsoft Word 2010

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. Today I'm going to show you how to space lines and align paragraphs in Microsoft Word 2010. I'm going to show you a number of Hotkeys as well that will make this process a lot faster and easier.

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The first thing we need to do is select a piece of text and to do that with a Hotkey Command we can use Shift and the arrow keys
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Using Shift Down I can highlight the whole paragraph.

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Now I want to change the line spacing using Hotkeys, if I want double line spacing I'm going to press Ctrl 2
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You can see now that the text is double spaced. This is important for essays and other types of documents.

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If I want to set a 1.5 line spacing I'm going to press Ctrl 5
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As you can see the text is now changed.
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If I want to single space the lines I can press Ctrl 1 to return it to the normal setting
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If I want to align a paragraph, as you can see it's already highlighted, I'm going to press Ctrl E
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Now I've aligned the paragraph between the center and the left. If I press Ctrl E again it returns it to the left side, if I press it again it aligns it in the middle.
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If I want to switch a paragraph between justified and left-aligned, I can press Ctrl J
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Now you see it's in the justified setting, which is equal on both sides. So, this is a way to switch between different alignments.

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I can also use Ctrl R to switch to the right alignment
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So I can use Ctrl E to switch to the centered alignment, Ctrl J to switch to justified alignment, and Ctrl L to switch to the left alignment.
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If I want to indent the paragraph from the left, where you'd normally press tab to make an indent in the paragraph, I can press Ctrl M, and that's going to move the whole paragraph and indent it, moving it inwards
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If I want to indent it further, I can press Ctrl M again, but if I want to remove it, I can press Ctrl Shift M
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We can also use the undo function which works for everything, which is Ctrl Z
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The undo function, Ctrl Z, is a universal function which works for undoing everything, but if we want to specifically undo the indent press Ctrl Shift M.
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Next, we can make a hanging indent, and we can do this by pressing Ctrl T
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You can see that it's made a T shaped hanging indent.
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We can also extend that by pressing Ctrl T a couple more times, if you want to make a bigger hanging indent
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If I want to undo that, I can use Ctrl Z, the universally undo symbol, or we can press Ctrl Shift T
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If you want to remove paragraph formatting, you can press Ctrl Q
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That will undo all the formatting we've done to that paragraph.
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This is how to space lines and align paragraphs in a document in Microsoft Word 2010
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