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How to double space in Google Docs

Change the line spacing of your document to double in a few clicks, for the whole document or just a few paragraphs.

Operations
5 steps 2 min Community template
1

Click in your document

Click anywhere in the text of your document.

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Click in your document
2

Select all the text

Press Ctrl + A (Cmd + A on Mac) to select the whole document. To change only some paragraphs, highlight just those instead.

3

Click Line & paragraph spacing

In the toolbar, click the Line & paragraph spacing button.

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Click Line & paragraph spacing
4

Click Double

Choose Double from the list of spacing options.

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Click Double
5

Click anywhere to deselect

Your text is now double spaced. Click anywhere in the document to deselect it and keep writing.

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Click anywhere to deselect

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