The importance of Line spacing in your reports
The space between the lines is important. Normally there is very little space between lines of text, making the document harder to read.
For your reports you should set the line spacing to at least 1.5, preferably to double spacing to give your tutor somewhere to make comments in between lines and to make your document easier to read.
This image above shows you the difference that a little spacing can make to a document.
How to set the line spacing
Setting the line spacing is easy. Select the text that you want to apply the spacing to (usually the whole document so press CTRL+A) and then click on the Format menu and select Paragraph.
Alternatively, once you've selected the text you can right-click on it and choose Paragraph from the pop-up menu.
The paragraph dialogue box will appear that will enable you to make settings for the currently selected paragraph. Look for the drop-down box labelled, "Line Spacing" and choose the setting that you want from the drop-down box.
Once you're happy with your choices, click OK.