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In the same way, you can choose to show other hidden symbols in your Word documents.īecause the Ctrl + Shift + 8 shortcut is so easy to learn and use, I don’t recommend turning on your paragraph symbols or other hidden symbols using the Display tab in the Word Options dialog box. If you have the paragraph symbol selected in this dialog box, it means that they will display in all of your Word documents. In other words, with the Paragraph Symbol selected in the Word Options dialog box, the Show/Hide ¶ command will not work for you for getting rid of these formatting symbols. Click Options at the bottom of the File tab.Word provides a variety of indents to emphasize paragraphs in a document.If using the Show/Hide ¶ command did not work for you, then you will need to unselect the paragraph symbol in the Word Options dialog box to get rid of your paragraph symbols. Indented paragraphs appear to have different margin settings. If a document has 12-point text, then one line space equals 12-points, one-half line space equals 6-points, double-spacing equals 24-points.Īn indent increases the distance between the side of a paragraph and the left or right margin. You use the Paragraph dialog box to set the space between paragraphs. Notice that Word has added an extra quarter-line of space between lines in the paragraph. Press Tab to see the change in the preview pane. In the At box, key 1.25 (highlight the text in the box and type over it). Choose Multiple from the Line Spacing drop-down list.

With the dialog box still open, select Single from the line spacing drop down menu.You can see the change in the preview box.

Click the down arrow to open the line spacing drop-down list and choose Double.(You can also open this menu by selecting Paragraph from the Format menu). Simply click OK, and carriage returns have been hidden like below. Microsoft Word uses the ¤ symbol as a hidden character to mark the ends of cells in tables. Find Always show these formatting marks on the screen group, and uncheck the boxes of Paragraph marks and Show all formatting marks. Right-click the first paragraph and choose Paragraph from the shortcut menu. The Word Options dialog box will display, go to Display tab.In the Styles task pane, click Clear All. On the Home tab, click the Styles dialogue box launcher to open the Styles task pane (or click Alt + CTRL + Shift + S). Choose 1.0 to restore the single-spacing to the paragraph. To remove all styles from a block of text, open your Microsoft Word document, then follow these steps: Highlight the paragraph or block of text that contains the problematic formatting. With the insertion point in the same paragraph, click the down arrow to the right of the Line Spacing button on the formatting toolbar.Instead of pressing Enter multiple times to increase space between paragraphs, you can set a specific amount of space before or after paragraphs. Paragraph space is the amount of space above or below a paragraph. Single-spacing is Word’s default setting. For example, some paragraphs may be single spaced and some double-spaced. Line spacing is typically based on the height of the characters, but you can change it to a specific value. Line space is the amount of vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph. Ctrl+L= Left Align Ctrl+R= Right Align Ctrl+E= Center Ctrl+J= Justify.

The easiest way to change paragraph alignment is to use the alignment buttons on the Formatting toolbar. The margin is the blank space between the edge of the paper and where the text. Paragraph alignment determines how the lines in a paragraph appear in relation to the left and right margins. You can copy paragraph formats from paragraph to paragraph and view formats through task panes. All formatting for a paragraph is stored in the paragraph mark and carried to the next paragraph when you press the Enter key. Paragraph formatting is applied to an entire paragraph. Select Line and Page Breaks in the resulting Paragraph dialog: By default, Word’s Heading styles have Keep with next. You can indent paragraphs, number them, or add borders and shading to them. To apply any of these settings, click the cursor anywhere in the paragraph, and then click the dialog launcher,, at the bottom right of the P aragraph group on the Home ribbon tab, or right-click and then select Paragraph. For example, you can change the alignment of text from left to center or the spacing between lines form single to double. Paragraph formatting lets you control the appearance if individual paragraphs. You insert a hard return anytime you press the Enter key. A paragraph in Word is any text that ends with a hard return.