How to Add Space Before or After Paragraphs in a Word Document?

While creating a document in MS Word Office application, the space is often used for clearly identifying where each paragraph starts and ends. By default, MS Word places somewhat more space between two paragraphs than it places between two lines in a paragraph. It is possible to increase or decrease this amount of space that shows before and after paragraphs. This can be done entering amounts in the 'Before' and 'After' fields in the 'Paragraph' section of the 'Page Layout' tab. For increasing the amount of space before or after each paragraph, one can use the up arrows next to the 'Before' and 'After' fields. Down arrows can be used for decreasing the amount of space before or after each paragraph.

How to Add Space Before or After Paragraphs?

  1. First of all, one has to place the cursor anywhere in the second paragraph
  2. Now, choose the 'Page Layout' tab
  3. The default spacing will appear in the 'Spacing Before' field
  4. User has to click the up arrow next to the 'Spacing Before' field for increasing the space before the paragraph
  5. User has to click the up arrow next to the 'Spacing After' field for increasing the amount of space after the paragraph

Special Note: One can click the down arrows, which are present next to the 'Spacing Before' and 'Spacing After' fields for decreasing the amount of space before or after a paragraph. One can also type the amount of space wanted to be used directly into the fields. This space is measured in points.

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