Paragraph formatting can be a little combination of different commands, such as indentation, Numbering, alignment, line spacing, and Spacing.
A paragraph is a meaningful part of a document that describes a specific idea or point. It can be a combination of letters, words, numbers, etc.
Giving more or less space between the Lines and paragraphs, called Line and Paragraph Spacing. By default, the space between the lines in the word is 1.15. Similarly, the space between the paragraphs is 8 points.
Examples of Paragraph Formatting Group in MS-Word
To format a paragraph, you can use different commands, such as different text alignments, bullets, numbers, multi-level lists, 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 for Formatting a Paragraph:
The instructions for the paragraph formatting group in MS Word are described in detail below.
Bullets: To start text, line, or paragraph with a bulleted list, you can choose different bullet styles by clicking the drop-down arrow in the Bulleted List.
Numbering: To start text, line, or paragraph with a Numbered list, you can choose different Number styles by clicking the drop-down arrow of the Numbered List.
Multilevel List: To start text, line, or paragraph with a multilevel list, you can choose multilevel list styles by clicking the drop-down arrow.
Left Alignment: Aligns text to the Left in a document to format a paragraph.
Center Alignment: Aligns text to the centre of the Page
Right Alignment: Aligns text to the right in a document.
Justification: Aligns text to both the right and left margins of the page by adding extra space between words for a clean look in a Word document.
Decrease Indent: Decreasing indent means decreasing the gap between the left margin and the left margin of the paragraph in the document.
Increase Indent: Increasing indent means increasing the gap between the left margin and the left of the paragraph in the document (for formatting the paragraph).
Sort: In this, you can arrange the selected text in ascending or descending order.
Show or Hide Paragraph Marks: Paragraph Marks are useful and show the marks when you apply section or page breaks.
Line Spacing: Increases or decreases the space between the lines or paragraphs in the document.
Shading: Coloring the background of a line from the left margin to the right.
Border: You can apply different borders to the selected text in the Word document.
Steps in Formatting a Paragraph
To apply the Formatting to the paragraph, follow the steps given below the picture.
→ 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 step to applying the Formatting to the Word Document.
Giving more or less space between the Lines and paragraphs is called indent, Line and Paragraph Spacing. By default, the space between the lines in the word is 1.15. Similarly, the space between the Paragraph is 8 points.
Decrease Indent: Decreasing indent means decreasing the gap between the left margin and the left of the paragraph in the document (for paragraph formatting).
Increase Indent: Increasing the indents makes the space between the left margin and the left side of the paragraph in the document bigger.
→ Go to the Layout tab for paragraph Group.
→ Then select the paragraph/s you want
→ Choose Before or After Spacing Options by clicking the arrows or typing an exact numeric value provided in the options to set Before or After Spacing.
→ Go to the Home tab
→ Enter and select the text you want
→ If you want to change the spacing between the lines choose the options accordingly or
→ If you want to add or remove the spacing between the paragraph choose one of the options given under the icon of “Line and Paragraph spacing”.
What are the types of paragraph formatting?
paragraph formatting types include bold, italic, underline, colour text, resize text, increase or decrease space and so on.
What is the paragraph formatting example?
Making text, bold, colour, resize, line spacing, etc.
What are the paragraph formatting options?
This includes all commands of home and other tabs in a Word document that suits the paragraph.
What is a paragraph?
Paragraph formatting can be a little combination of different commands, such as an Indention, Numbering, Alignments, Line and Spacing.
What is the default space between paragraphs?
By default, the space between the paragraphs is 8 points.
What is the default space between lines?
By default, the space between the lines in a paragraph is 1.15.
