By Tammi Day
A natural habit for those who learned on a typewriter or learned “intuitively” is just hitting the Enter key to add extra vertical space when creating a resume or other career document. But this limits us to multiples of full extra lines! Word processing programs usually set about 20% blank space between lines, i.e. 10 point type will take up 12 points (1/6″) to allow a little “breathing room” between lines. This is called 10/12 leading, because originally strips of lead were inserted between the lines of type by the typesetter. If we hit Enter again, we’ve added about 120% the height of a character as spacing. But what if that’s too much, or not enough?
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