Archive for the ‘Paragraph Formatting’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Tabs
Back in the day, when we started our programs from the DOS prompt and when we used the function keys for everything, we knew how to use tabs. If you took a word processing class, you would spend weeks learning tabs, setting tabs, using tabs, counting characters to calculate where ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Indents
Indents can be used to control the distance between text and the left and right edges of a page. They also over-ride margins and can be applied to multiple or single paragraphs at a time. Each paragraph has only one set of indents that can be changed.
Types of Indents
First line ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Margins
The margin is the white space that frames your document. There are four margins that can be potentially changed: top, bottom, left, and right.
Margins and the Ruler
By using the ruler to change the margins you must change each margin separately by dragging the margin indicator on the ruler. The ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The ruler is a graphical way to change margins, indents and tabs in Word, but there are two contradictory problems with it. One, because it's on screen by default, users accidentally click on it and end up changing settings that didn't realize they changed. Problem two is that for users ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The difference between line spacing and paragraph spacing is about the paragraph marks. Every time the Enter key is pushed a paragraph is created; paragraph spacing adds space before or after a paragraph. A paragraph can be made up of multiple lines of text or just a few words.
Line spacing ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Paragraph marks are part of the hidden formatting symbols that make up a Word file. Being familiar with them can be valuable in two ways:
Troubleshooting problems with a document.
A basic understanding of them will give you greater control over the formatting and layout of your documents.
To see the paragraph ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Besides using the Bullets and Numbering buttons, a list can be started based on typed characters. To key-start basic bullets or numbering, start the list with one of the following:
*. will change to •.
1. will start a numbered list.
A. will start a lettered list.
All bullet or numbered lists can ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
When typing up a bulleted or numbered list, sometimes there will be a line where you don't want a bullet or number. One way to do this is to insert a line break; Shift + Enter. A line break allows you to break the continuity of a list, and when ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A complaint that comes from users upgrading to Word 2007 is about the default line spacing. Word 2007 has a default spacing of 10 pts after each paragraph (when you push Enter) plus a slightly increased single spacing. Many users don't want any automatic spacing going on, or just want ...
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