Formatting Paragraphs
- Introduction
- Selecting Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text
- Inserting Special Characters
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Formatting Characters
- Autoformatting
- Creating Numbered or Bulleted Lists
- Using Footnotes and Endnotes
- Checking Spelling and Grammar
- Using Built-in Language Tools
- Using Synonyms and the Thesaurus
- Hyphenating Words
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using AutoText
- Line Numbering
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Adding Other Comments
- Linking to Another Part of a Document
- Switching Between Insert and Overwrite Mode
- Counting the Words in a Selection
- Changing the Case of Selected Text
Formatting Paragraphs
You can apply many formats to paragraphs using the Sidebar's Properties deck or the buttons on the Formatting toolbar. Figure 6 shows the Paragraph panel of the Properties deck of the Sidebar when the cursor is in a text area. In addition to the controls shown, the complete paragraph formatting dialog (Figure 10) can be called using the tiny More Options button at the top right of the pane.
Figure 7 shows the Formatting toolbar as a floating toolbar, customized to show only the buttons for paragraph formatting.
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It is highly recommended that you use paragraph styles rather than manually formatting paragraphs, especially for long or standardized documents. For information on the advantages of styles and how to use them, see Chapters 6 and 7. |
Figure 8 shows examples of the text alignment options.
When using justified text, the last line is by default aligned to the left; however, if so desired, you can also align the last line to the center of the paragraph area or justify it so that spaces are inserted between the words in order to fill the whole line. In the case where the last line consists of a single word, you can also have this word stretched to cover the entire line. Figure 9 shows an example of the effect obtained when setting each of these options.
These options are controlled in the Alignment page of the Format → Paragraph dialog box shown in Figure 10.
