Modify Paragraph Properties

Modified on Fri, Nov 21 at 6:15 PM

You can greatly improve the organization and readability of your documents by applying paragraph formatting.

You can specify alignment, and spacing.


Modify paragraph properties

To modify paragraph properties:

  1. Select the paragraph to be modified.
  2. Do one of the following.
    • To modify paragraph alignment, click Format-Alignment and then click one of the alignments you wish to apply to the paragraph.
    • To change the line spacing of the paragraph, click Format-Line Spacing and select the value of line spacing from the list.

Set indentation

To specify indent or outdent:

  1. Select a paragraph to modify its indentation.
  2. Click the Format menu.
  3. Select Increase Indent or Decrease Indent.

More Information

Paragraph Properties

Specify or change the properties for the paragraph.

NameDescription
AlignSpecify the alignment of the paragraph.
  • Align Left: Align paragraphs to the left margin.
  • Align Center: Align paragraphs to the center.
  • Align Right: Align paragraphs to the right margin.
  • Justify: Align paragraphs to both left and right margins.
Line SpacingChange the line spacing of the active paragraph.
IndentIncrease the left margin of the current paragraph.
OutdentDecrease the left margin of the current paragraph. If there is no margin to decrease, this menu is disabled.

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