Ah, the double space, the classic savior of lazy essay writers. For those born after the '90s, you may not believe this, but there was a time when double-spacing school papers wasn't the norm.

When you're writing something, you may have to adjust the document's format to fit certain guidelines. From MLA to Chicago style, each has its own rules for paragraph spacing, font size and more.

Double-spacing is a great way to organize your word processing, and an excellent optimization that is built into most word processing tools. And whenever we hear “word processing,” one of the first ...