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Chapter 17 Word Essentials
covers background colors and shading, as well as boxes and lines drawn around and between
paragraphs. Tab stops are also considered paragraph formatting—you don’t specify a set of
tab stops for each line on a page; instead, tab stops remain uniform throughout an entire
paragraph.
When you press Enter to create a new paragraph, the new paragraph usually takes on the
formatting of the paragraph immediately preceding it. For example, if you position the
insertion point within a right-justified paragraph and press Enter, the new paragraph will
also be right-justified.
Direct Formatting Versus Styles
For simple, short documents, ...