How to add paragraph spacing in Google Docs
I’m using Google Docs for a project I’m working on right now, and I ran into a problem with spacing. There appears to be no way to get spacing between paragraphs. You can control spacing between lines, but that’s not the same thing. Actually, it’s quite easy. You just have to know how Google Docs works.
The root problem is that it’s not creating paragraphs when you press the [Enter] key. It’s just adding a <br> tag. If you get it to create paragraphs, you can edit the document’s CSS and fix the problem easily.
The trick to this is to explicitly format the text with the Normal Paragraph Text style. This is not the same as no formatting. The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl+0 while your cursor is in the paragraph you want to format. After you do this, pressing [Enter] will actually do what you want — it will create a new paragraph.
Now that you’ve done that, you can add the following CSS with the Edit/Edit CSS menu:
p {
margin: 1em 0 1em 0;
}
You should now see the desired spacing between paragraphs.
Further Reading:
Great tip … so obvious now that you’ve explained it. Tried looking for this a while ago in the “Help Centre” with no luck.
Here I was *manually* entering blank empty lines between my paragraphs like a chump!
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1 Nov 09 at 8:02 pm
Hey, this was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for posting.
nycynik
15 Mar 10 at 9:57 am
Yes! Thank you!
sarra
19 Jun 10 at 1:12 pm
Too bad that Google Docs doesn’t support custom CSS anymore.
Samuel Lindblom
12 Sep 10 at 11:20 am