You can also change the line spacing for certain sections of text rather. If, for instance, you just want plain, single-spaced text, you will have to change the numbers in the Before and After options to 0 pt. If you need to double space a Microsoft Word document. A study on the hotly contested issue supposedly handed the victory to the two-spacers back in 2018, but many questioned the research and it clearly wasn’t enough to convince Microsoft. Notice that Microsoft Word often has some fairly unusual default settings for line spacing. Double-spacing the lines of a document can be useful for enhancing readability or leaving room for someone else to add editing annotations. That hasn’t stopped the battle over one space or two from raging on for decades, however.
Word and many other similar apps make fonts proportional, so two spaces is no longer necessary. Narrow characters like “i” got the same amount of space as “m,” so the extra space after the “.” was needed to make it more apparent that sentences had ended.
Typewriters used monospaced fonts to allocate the same amount of horizontal spacing to every character. Much of the debate around one space or two has been fueled by the halcyon days of the typewriter. “As the crux of the great spacing debate, we know this is a stylistic choice that may not be the preference for all writers, which is why we continue to test with users and enable these suggestions to be easily accepted, ignored, or flat out dismissed in Editor,” says Kirk Gregersen, partner director of program management at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge. The suggestion can still be ignored by two-spacers
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