Originally Posted by Nick
Well, how would you like it if you had to read this blog entry with more damn white-space than writing? I mean, it's all fine and well if I were a student trying to pad the hell out of my dissertation, but I'm not.
Having finished my degree at the start of the summer i had to write a dissertation using the dreaded double line spacing, i personally see no need for it. However we were required, as one of the writing criteria, to include this specific formatting. It makes it easier for the person marking the text to read, apparently. It doesn't really help 'pad the hell out of' what you are writing as you are given a word limit, so having extra spaces does not count towards your word count. It can however be lucrative business for the uni print shop who will charge you to print out the 2 copies which you must provide the faculty for marking.
I dont have the latest version of Office, think i am using xp pro version and it is fairly straight forward to change the formatting. I dont know whether they have changed the options and layout of the latest version of office but in the version i use i would do this:
Format>Paragraph>Indents and Spacing>Line Spacing>Single