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Practice Exercise (cont'd)
Many studies have been made on what can be done to make a document
easy for people to read.
Results have shown that double line spacing and short line lengths seem to
help people read text quickly and easily. Double spacing a document also
makes it appear less "heavy."
TYPE the two paragraphs shown above
Notice that carrier returns are inserted to make double line spacing.
Now that you've typed a short document file in double spacing (2), you can change the
line spacing back to single
(1)
to see how you change line spacing in a file that is
already typed.
MOVE the cursor back to the beginning of the document file.
CHANGE the line spacing to single
•
Press CTRL & 4
•
Press the
L
key
•
Type the number 1
REFORMAT the document file using the repeat command
•
Press CTRL
&
0 (zero)
•
Press CTRL
&
6
NOTICE that the reformat removes the extra carrier returns to make the line
spaci ng single
STORE the document file
•
Press CTRL & 3
•
Press the G key
FORMATTING
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