Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Word 2003 in 24 Hours

Hour 7. Formatting Paragraphs

Now that you know how to apply font formatting, you're ready to delve into paragraph formatting , the second of the three formatting categories. Paragraph formatting includes all of the formatting that can affect, at a minimum, a single paragraph. As you wend your way through this jam-packed hour, you'll learn about such paragraph formatting features as alignment, line spacing, custom tabs, and indentation.

The highlights of this hour include

• Changing alignment and line spacing

• Setting custom tabs and indents

• Adding space above and below paragraphs

• Controlling how paragraphs break across pages

• Creating bulleted and numbered lists

• Adding borders and shading

• Copying and removing paragraph formatting

• Checking the formatting of your text