Note: Line spacing can be applied only to text placed in a text frame.
Line spacing determines the spacing between the individual lines of a paragraph in a text frame.
To change the line spacing, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Place the text cursor in the desired paragraph of the text frame (or select several paragraphs). |
| 2. | Open the dialog box by clicking on the group arrow of the ribbon tab Home | group Alignment. |
| You will find the options for changing the line spacing in the section Line spacing: |
| 3. | First, use the dropdown list to select the method you want to use to specify the line spacing (see below). |
| 4. | Then enter the spacing in the edit box to its right. |
When you confirm with OK, the line spacing will be changed according to your settings.
Methods of specifying the line spacing
In the dropdown list Line spacing, you can choose which method to use to define the line spacing.
The list has the following entries:
▪Single: Automatic single line spacing
| Here, the optimum line spacing is determined automatically: |
| If you increase the font size in the paragraph, the line spacing will be increased accordingly. |
| If you decrease the font size, however, the line spacing will be decreased automatically. |
▪Multiple: Multiple automatic line spacing
| This corresponds to the option Single and thus also provides automatic line spacing. However, you can simply increase or decrease line spacing if necessary by specifying the desired number of lines in the input field to the right of this option. |
| Enter "1.5" for lines to obtain one and a half times the automatic line spacing. |
| Enter "2" to get twice the automatic line spacing. |
| Enter "1" to get automatic single line spacing (corresponds to selecting the option Single). |
▪Exactly: Exact line spacing
| Here, you can set the line spacing to an exact value in points. Here, the line spacing will not be automatically adjusted to the font size. |
▪At least: Automatic line spacing with a given minimum
| This setting corresponds to the option Single, but prevents any reduction below the specified minimum value. |
| Thus if you enter 12 points as the minimum value, the program uses automatic single line spacing by default. If the automatic line spacing is less than 12 points (because you are using a very small font size), an exact line spacing of 12 points is used instead. |
By default, the line spacing is set to Single.