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FORMATTING PARAGRAPHS
To format your paragraph, first highlight the paragraph you wish to format. To highlight more
than one paragraph, click at the beginning of the paragraph and drag the mouse over the text.
To apply changes to the entire document, select all by hitting
Ctrl + A
. To specify
Alignment
,
Line Spacing
,
Indentation
, and
Page Break
expand the Paragraph section of the
Home Tab
. This
will open up the Paragraph menu (Figure 12). The
Alignment
option allows you to choose how you want
your paragraph to look (i.e. justified, right, center, or
left). The
Line Spacing
option allows you to set the
desired spacing, such as single or double. The
Indentation
option allows you to tab/push the line(s)
in your paragraph either left or right. The
Page Break
option is found in
Paragraph
menu, but you must first
select the
Line and Page Breaks
tab.
Page break
allows you to split a paragraph or a page up into
sections. You can also bring up this menu by right
clicking (or by hitting
Ctrl + Click
on a one button
mouse) within the document and selecting
Paragraph
.
Figure1 2. Changing the Paragraph attributes with the Paragraph menu.
CUT, COPY, AND PASTE
You can use the
Cut
,
Copy
and
Paste
features of Word to change the order of sections within
your document, to move sections from other documents into new documents, and to save
yourself the time of retyping repetitive sections in a document.
Cut
will actually remove the
selection from the original location and allow it to be placed somewhere else.
Copy
allows you
to leave the original selection where it is and insert a copy elsewhere.
Paste
is used to insert
whatever has been cut or copied.
To
Cut
or
Copy
:
Highlight the text by clicking and dragging over the text to be cut or copied. Go to
Home Tab >
Copy
or
Home Tab > Cut
. Click the location where the information should be placed. Go to
Home Tab > Paste
.