The people who have responded to you here understand it much better than the average Joe because they have been actively using it and assisting others to use it for decades. No one, including its designers, understands Word. The man on the street doesn't understand Word? The man on the street doesn't understand a microwave oven, either but probably knows enough to not put a metal pan into one. Word is designed, primarily to put words on paper. The rules of the road are much the same, and both get you from one place to another. You certainly spent some time learning the controls. When you went from using a bicycle to driving a car, you took lessons, I would hope. If you are going to use it, yes you want to learn how. Word is a very sophisticated computer program (and like most computer programs it is very dumb about some things). You probably could configure it to act like one, but why? That may have been with Word version 1.0 in mind. Probably nothing is as likely to set people here off more than someone complaining that Word is not acting properly like a typewriter." Peter McWilliams wrote a small excellent book titled
Produce Italics was a novelty that scored brownie points. (Selectrics could do better, but most did not bother to learn to do it.) I remember 30-page legal briefs where changing the type ball to That was pretty much the best a typewriter could do. When there would be room on the page, an extra line might be added. On the typewriter a new paragraph often was marked by a first-line indent rather than by adding a space, just as underscoring was used in place of Italics.
It is standard in any text I've read to have space between paragraphs, more space than between lines. I have stopped being on the "bleeding edge" though and generally let other people try stuff first. It I spent some time learning to use the new tool. Each time something new came out, when I got I remember DOS 1.1 and still have the manual! I used to write 800-line macros for Word Perfect 4.1. If you want to trade "back when I was a boy," I was the national ABA MultiMate users group chair in the '80s. When I refer my questions to the man in the street they only theįew hoops through which they jump, but they don't why and they don't know much. If they could do it, why can't Microsoft? And the proof is, most of the people who "use"Word know very little about it. Never grown old and whose commands never changed from 2.1 to version 4. I do need Word for several applications to do with Ebooks, but for everything else, i'ts back to the old trusty one that has Pay for 2003, or maybe 2007 or the latest, or wait for something better. Which I have yet to learn in the first place I don't know whether to start with the version which I have and have paid for which is '97 or start and I have better things to do with my life than constantly relearn Word. It is usage for writing on the screen where spacing after the carriage return- how you say, "enter" is the norm.
Or not.Īnd it is not "Standard English Usage." Look at a book. That is why, on the internet, noone knows if you are a dog. Given that theĭemocratic base came from typewriters, and DOS word processors, that did not make that decision for you, it would have been, how you say, more intuitive to make this feature the option, not the norm.
How to do double space on word 2003 software#
In the window that appears look for "Line Spacing" and change it to "Double" then click "OK"Īnother paragraph setting that you might want to experiment with is "Indentation" where you can set your text for "Hanging Indent" which is used for bibliographies.It is actually easier to simply insert a line when one wants as one did in a typewriter it is much harder to turn off the default in Word following the logic of some one who wrote the software for themselves, not for the public at large. Highlight the text you want to double spaceĬlick on "Format" on the menu bar and then select "Paragraph"
How to do double space on word 2003 how to#
Here's how to set some text in Word to be double spaced. Today's tip will help you set the line spacing in Microsoft Word.
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