
Here we left-aligned the selected lines and now they’re lined up neatly on the left. Now, you can format the lines the way you want without the extra spaces. Notice that the spaces on the lines are now gone. Select the lines that contain spaces you want to delete and center the lines by pressing Ctrl+E, or clicking the Center button in the Paragraph section of the Home tab. Once you are done, go back to the View tab and select Stop Recording from the Macro group. Simply select your text, change line spacing or whatever you need to do. Once you get through this dialog the macro recorder will record everything you do.


To do this, make sure the Home tab is active on the ribbon and click the “Show/Hide ¶“ button in the Paragraph section. If you are using Word 2003 or below, look in the Tools menu under Macros. To begin, we want to see where the spaces are, so we need to show non-printing characters. RELATED: How to Display Non-Printing Characters in Word However, we’ll show you a quick and easy way to remove the extra spaces from multiple lines at once, saving you time. You’ve probably been manually deleting the spaces by repeatedly pressing the delete or backspace keys.

Word does not provide a straightforward way to remove extra spaces on lines. If you’ve worked with too many documents in which others have used spaces to align text and images, you know it can be very time consuming to manually remove the extra spaces from the beginning and end of each line.
