Formatting Paragraphs

You can change a paragraph’s formatting options by choosing Home > Paragraph > Paragraph to open the Paragraph window.

On the Indents and Spacing tab, do the following:
- In the General area, set the paragraph’s alignment and outline level.
- In the Indentation area, set the amount of space you want to indent from the left and/or right margins.
- In the Spacing area, set the amount of space before and after each paragraph and the amount of vertical spacing between lines of text.
On the Line and Page Breaks tab, do the following:
- Select Keep lines together to prevent the paragraph lines from being on different pages.
- Select Page break before to force a page break before the paragraph.
To define the tab stops, click Tabs to open the Tabs window.
- For each tab stop define the settings, which include the position, alignment and the character pattern that will fill the space between the tab and the character following it. (The MiddleDots option adds a line of dots vertically centered in the space between the tab and the character following it.)
- Click Set to create the tab stop. You can add additional tab stops, or click OK to add the tab stops to the paragraph.