[Publib] Re: Font size of books

[Anita Barney]

Font size and leading are as important in your documents as they are in 
books.  If I want to make something more readable without increasing the 
font size, I change the amount of space between the lines (the leading, if 
I were actually a publisher).  If you use a 12 point font and open the 
spacing to 16 point, it's much easier to read, yet doesn't take as much 
room as double-spacing or line-and-a-half spacing.

To do this in Word:  click Format, then Paragraphs, then Spacing. Click the 
down arrow for Line Spacing and select Exactly, then choose a point size at 
least four points larger than the size of your text.  The bigger your type 
size, the larger the difference should be.  Play with this feature, and 
you'll be amazed what a difference it makes.



Anita R. Barney
Library Director
The Brookfield Library
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