In this exercise, you’ll change text alignment and indentation, insert and modify tab stops,
modify paragraph and line spacing, and add borders and shading to paragraphs.
SET UP You need the Information_start document located in your Chapter04 practice
file folder to complete this exercise. Open the Information_start document, and save
it as Information. Then click the Show/Hide ¶ button to turn on the display of
formatting marks, and follow the steps.- Set the zoom percentage so that you can see almost all of the paragraphs in the
document. Then on the View tab, in the Show group, select the Ruler check box.
Tip In the following steps, we give measurements in inches. You can substitute approxi-
mate measurements in your own measuring system. If you want to change the measuring
system Word uses, display the Backstage view, click Options, and in the Word Options
dialog box, display the Advanced page. Then under Display, click the system you want in
the Show Measurements In Units Of list, and click OK. - Select the first two paragraphs (Welcome! and the next paragraph). Then on the
Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Center button.
The lines are now centered between the margins.
Tip When applying paragraph formatting, you don’t have to select the entire paragraph. - After the comma in the second paragraph, click to the left of your. Then on the Page
Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Breaks button, and click Text Wrapping.
Word inserts a line break character and moves the part of the paragraph that
follows that character to the next line.
The bent arrow after cottage indicates that you have inserted a line break.See Also For information about page and section breaks, see “Controlling What Appears
on Each Page” in Chapter 7, “Preview, Print, and Distribute Documents.”- Click anywhere in the next paragraph, and then on the Home tab, in the Paragraph
group, click the Justify button.
Word inserts space between the words in the lines of the paragraph so that the
edges of the paragraph are flush against both the left and right margins.
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