Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Paragraph Formatting

So far, you've worked with only font formatting—formatting that affects individual characters. Next, you'll learn about the formatting that Word can apply to paragraphs. In Word, paragraph formatting includes the following:

• Paragraph alignment

• Outline levels

• Indentation

• Spacing between lines

• Spacing before and after paragraphs

• Line and page breaks

• Tabs

The following sections review all these aspects of formatting, except for Outline levels (page xxx). First, however, it's important to understand what Word interprets as a paragraph and how it stores paragraph formatting.

→ To learn more about working with outline levels, see Applying Outline Levels to Specific Text

How Word Stores Paragraph Formatting

Word considers a paragraph to ...