Shortcuts offer raw speed, but visual controls give writers surgical precision over complex documents containing tables, bullet points, block quotes, and section breaks. The central hub for layout management sits on the Home tab ribbon.
Navigate to the ribbon across the top of your workspace. Locate the "Paragraph" group, situated between the font styling tools and the style galleries. Here, you will see an icon featuring vertical arrows pointing up and down adjacent to horizontal lines: the line and paragraph spacing button. Clicking this icon opens an intuitive numerical drop-down menu ranging from 1.0 to 3.0. Selecting 2.0 immediately applies double spacing to your current selection.
For deeper configuration, open the comprehensive Paragraph dialog box. On Windows, click the tiny diagonal arrow icon anchored in the bottom-right corner of the Paragraph ribbon block. On macOS, access this interface by choosing Format > Paragraph from the top system menu bar. Inside the dialog window, identify the "Indents and Spacing" tab. Beneath the "Spacing" header, open the "Line spacing" drop-down menu and choose "Double". This panel shows live point-by-point readouts, allowing you to confirm that no rogue point values distort your typography.
