Paragraph Formatting Group in MS-Word
A paragraph is a different section that describes a particular idea or point. Paragraph formatting or Formatting a Paragraph can inclusive of one or more characters, words, numbers, or a combination of these.
To format a paragraph, you can use different commands such as different text alignments, bullets, numbering, multi-level list, paragraph indents, sorting text, line spacing, shading, and different borders. To format a paragraph, follow the steps below the picture.
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Commands of Paragraph Formatting Group in MS-Word are explained in detailed below.
- Bullets: To start text/Line/Paragraph with a bulleted list, you can choose different bullet styles by clicking the drop-down arrow of the Bulleted List. Click here to Read More>>
- Numbering: To start text/line/Paragraph with a Numbered list, you can choose different Number styles by clicking the drop down-arrow of the Numbered List. Read More>>
- Multilevel List: To start text/line/Paragraph with a multilevel list, you can choose multilevel list styles by clicking the drop-down arrow.
- Left Alignment: Aligns text to the Left off the page to format a paragraph. Read More>>
- Center Alignment : Aligns text to the center of the Page (for paragraph formatting). Read More>>
- Right Alignment: Aligns text to the right of the page. Read More>>
- Justification: Aligns text to both the right and the left margins of the page by adding the extra space between words for the clean look in a word document. Read More>>
- Decrease Indent: Decrease indent means decreasing the gap between the left margin and left of the paragraph in the document (for paragraph formatting ). Read More>>
- Increase Indent: Increase indent means increasing the gap between the left margin and left of the paragraph in the document (for formatting the paragraph). Read More>>
- Sort: In this, you can arrange the selected text in ascending or descending order.
- Show or Hide Paragraph Marks: Paragraph Marks are useful and shows the marks when you apply section or page breaks.
- Line Spacing: Increases or decreases the space between the lines or paragraphs in the document. Read More>>
- Shading: Coloring the background of a line from the left margin to the right margin.
- Border: You can apply different borders to the selected text in the word document. Read More>>
Steps to Follow in Formatting the Paragraph in MS-Word:
To apply the Paragraph Formatting Group commands, follow the steps given below the picture.
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- Go to the Home tab
- Select the text or Position the cursor wherever you want to format the paragraph.
- Then click or select any command that you want to apply to the selected text. That’s the simple steps to apply the Paragraph Formatting to the Word Document.
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