In order to decrease the space between words, you can either change the inter word space/stretch. More specifically, the following dimensions may be set for a font:
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Stefan Kottwitz' blog on Full justification with typewriter font covers all these in an example based on the Computer Modern Typewriter font ( \ttfamily, \texttt, etc.). Because the box is transparent and ‘floating’ it can be overlaid on the rest of the document to give exact positioning.There are a number of factors involved in font spacing, including inter word spacing, inter character spacing, inter word stretch, etc.
Drag the text box until it’s exactly where you want it. Set the text box to Shape Fill | No Fill (ie transparent), no border and positioning in front of text. Put one or both of the lines in a text box. The ultimate in line positioning is using a text box. Turn the table gridlines off and it appears as two lines of closely formatted text.Ĭlose line spacing with a table (left, gridlines showing) and how it appears in the final document (right). Put each line in a cell then adjust the row heights until they are as close as you need. Tables are the secret trick for all Word nerds. We usually settle for something in the 0.7 to 0.8 range to get the lines close together without clipping the tops of letters. Reduce the line spacing too much and the letters will be cut off. Try out various line spacing fractions until you get what you need. Set the Multiple line spacing value to less than one eg 0.7 To set less than 1 line space go to Paragraph | Line Spacing and choose ‘Multiple’ – yes ‘Multiple’. If those options don’t work, it’s time to break out the major nerd tricks. Just below those choices is “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style”.Ĭhecking that box will remove the before and after spacing, assuming both lines have the same style. When you paste data from an external source to an Excel spreadsheet (plain text reports, numbers from web pages, etc.), you are likely to get extra spaces. You can use trim formula, Excel Find & replace or special Excel add-in to clean up cells' content. Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style 3 quick ways to remove extra spaces between words or delete all spaces from Excel cells. Maybe all you need to do is reduce one or both of those. Check the Don't expand character spaces on a line that ends with SHIFT-RETURN box and click OK. Click Layout Options to bring out more choices. Next click Advanced and scroll down to the bottom of the box. Open the paragraph spacing dialog from the little button at bottom right of the Paragraph section of the ribbon.Ĭheck the Spacing, Before or After settings. First, click File then click Options to open Word Options dialog box. Turn ‘Show all’ on (Home | Paragraph | Show All) to see both Paragraph marks (the reverse P or pilcrow, left) and line breaks (angled arrow, right). Paragraph Break vs Line BreakĪ simple way to reduce the line spacing is to switch from the usual Paragraph Break (pressing Enter) for a Line Break (Shift + Enter)Ī Line Break will usually make a smaller gap between two lines.
Instead a few options to check and adjust until you get what you want.
Selecting a line shows the amount of space Word has allocated above and below the line. The left example has selected the top line. Here’s an example of standard line spacing (left) and very close spacing (right). It becomes useful when trying some design tricks for headings, for example the title in our Millennium poster. Reducing the line spacing or vertical gap between lines in Word paragraphs can be done in six different ways depending on the situationĪdjusting line spacing to put lines very close isn’t usually necessary for regular text.
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