The two most common values for exact line spacing are either 24 points per line, or 22.75 points per line. There are several options for the spacing: you could choose, but I’ve found it is easier to use. This is generally accomplished by making sure that the side numbering has the same spacing as the text itself. Making it Line Upįor a document that has a professional appearance, you will want the text in the document to line up with the line numbers. The line numbers themselves go into a text box and the vertical lines are just that. If the word document has only a single “section,” and you don’t check the option for “different first page,” the header will be replicated across every page in the document, which is what you want (there will be numbering on every page in the document). The normal way to include left-side numbering (along with three vertical lines spanning the length of the page, two close together on the left side of the content and one on the right side of the page) is to put that into the header. Having Side Numberingĭocuments filed with the court (and other documents, such as discovery requests that are served but not filed with the court) typically need to have numbering down the left side, and a caption on the first page. Since I don’t know what your document looks like, I will explain how to create one from scratch - and you can use that information to see how you might want to fix your broken document. Here is a guide to fixing a legal-formatted Microsoft Word document. odt file format, and I would like to see institutions move towards that, including courts and universities.īut until that happens, as a practical matter, attorneys need to use Microsoft Word to edit Microsoft Word documents that they will send or receive from other attorneys. That is why I recommend using LibreOffice (or Apache OpenOffice) and the. They were (allegedly) designed by Microsoft to be essentially impossible for Microsoft’s competitors to work with, so that Microsoft could leverage its monopoly power in the word processing/office software market (and in the personal computer operating systems market) to shut out competitors. Microsoft Word is not good software, especially the proprietary file formats (.doc and.
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