LineSpacingRule Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

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LineSpacingRule Property

       

Returns or sets the line spacing for the specified paragraphs. Read/write WdLineSpacing.

WdLineSpacing can be one of these WdLineSpacing constants.
wdLineSpace1pt5
wdLineSpaceAtLeast
wdLineSpaceDouble
wdLineSpaceExactly
wdLineSpaceMultiple
wdLineSpaceSingle

expression.LineSpacingRule

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

Use wdLineSpaceSingle, wdLineSpace1pt5, or wdLineSpaceDouble to set the line spacing to one of these values. To set the line spacing to an exact number of points or to a multiple number of lines, you must also set the LineSpacing property.

Example

This example double-spaces the lines in the first paragraph of the active document.

ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).LineSpacingRule = _
    wdLineSpaceDouble

This example returns the line spacing rule used for the first paragraph in the selection.

lrule = Selection.Paragraphs(1).LineSpacingRule