
This came about because monospaced type has a uniform appearance and two spaces between. Now all the redundant blank lines in your Word document have been removed. There used to be an old typographical convention that it’s proper to use two spaces after a sentence. Please note a blank line is composed of multiple paragraph marks, so you should enter it twice in the textbox which shown as ^p^p and enter it once in the Replace with textbox.Ĭlick Replace All. You can apply double spacing to an existing whole document by clicking anywhere inside the document, pressing Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select. Any text that you type into the document now will be with double spaced lines. Place your cursor in the text box of Find what and click More, then select Paragraph Mark in Special. Step 3: Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button in the Paragraph section of the ribbon, then click the 2.0 option. It means replacing two blank spaces with one space.Ĭlick Replace all and then you can check the result. To achieve this goal, you can press Space key twice in Find what textbox, and once in Replace with textbox. Generally, people only want to delete the redundant blank and keep the necessary one. Put your cursor in the textbox of Find what and click More, then select White Space in Special (Or you can simply press Space key in the textbox)Ĭlick Replace All and there will be no more blank in the document. To remove the redundant spaces and blank lines in Word, Find and Replace can do a better job than reformatting manually. Simply double-click and now that extra white space is being hidden. Hover your mouse over the edge of the page and notice Double-click to hide white space. Move to the top or bottom margin of that page. A document downloaded from Internet may contain some unwantted formats. Double Click to Show or Hide White Space.
