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In the text box, type your line num­bers. Right-click the text box and se­lect Wrap → Behind Text.

Ad­just the size and po­si­tion as needed. Click and drag on the page to cre­ate the box. Mac OS Word 2016 Insert tab → Text → Text Box → Draw Text Box. Mac OS Word 2011 Document Elements tab → Text Elements panel → Text Box icon → Text Box. Word Insert → Text panel → Text Box → Draw Text Box. Don’t use the “Dou­ble” line spac­ing op­tion in your word proces­sor-de­spite the name, you’ll end up with line spac­ing larger than you want.

The H para­graph is set in 12 point, so se­lect the whole para­graph and change its line spac­ing to ex­actly 24 points. To get true dou­ble line spac­ing, you need to set your line spac­ing to ex­actly twice the point size. In the body of the doc­u­ment, in 12 point, type a para­graph of about five lines that looks like this: I’ll use this as a ba­sic model and you can adapt it to the rules in your jurisdiction.Ĭre­ate a new doc­u­ment with 1″ margins. Look­ing at court opin­ions, even judges are of­ten de­feated by this for­mat­ting task.īut the se­cret is sim­ple: use ex­act line spac­ing with the line num­bers and the body text.įor ex­am­ple, Cal­i­for­nia state courts re­quire fil­ings to use dou­ble line spac­ing (which works out to 28 lines per page), 12-point type, and line num­bers in the left mar­gin. If you prac­tice in a ju­ris­dic­tion that re­quires court fil­ings with line num­bers, you’ve faced the vex­ing prob­lem of keep­ing the line num­bers ver­ti­cally aligned with the text. Line numbers Exact line spacing is the key