Changing Basic Paragraph Formats
The basic paragraph formatting options allows you to control the
following:
- First
- The distance from the column edge
that the first line of a paragraph
should be indented
- Left
- The distance from the column edge
that entire paragraph should be
indented
- Right
- The distance from the right edge
of the column that a paragraph
should be indented
- Above
- The amount of space alloted before
the text of a paragraph. This is
ignored if the below value of the
previous paragraph is greater.
- Below
- The amount of space to allot after
a paragraph before beginning the
next paragraph. This is ignored if
the above value from the next
paragraph is greater.
- Leading
- This is the amount of space to
include between the lowest
descender on a line and the
high ascender on the following
line. This value is added to the
default font size to determine
line spacing.
- Line Spacing
- This can be determined by the
leading value, the size of the
largest font on a line, the height
of the highest ascender on a line,
or left as it is without any
adjustments.
- Widow/Orphan Lines
- This number indicates the number of
lines of a paragraph that have to
remain together alone at the end of
a page (orphan) or the beginning
or the next page (widow).
- Alignment
- A paragraph can be left aligned,
right aligned, centered,
justified, or left as you type it.
- Start
- This allows you to specify specific
staring places for a paragraph. For
example, if you wanted to have all
new chapters start at the beginning
of a new page, you would select
Top of Page. Other options include:
Top of Column, Top of Left Page,
Top of Right Page, Anywhere, & As is.
- Keep With
- This allows you to specify that a
paragraph remains connected to the
paragraph before or after it.
- Next P Tag
- This allows you to specify if you
always want the following paragraph
to have a format of another type.
- Hypenate
- This is a toggle that lets you turn
hypenation on and off.