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Changing paragraph alignment and justification

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Changing paragraph alignment and justification

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Paragraph justification can be used to change the look of a document, improve readability, or adjust certain parts of the document as well, so they stand out. We are going to explore paragraph justification using our No Obstacles HR1 doc, and as you can see, we're looking at Page 1 here, where we have two lines of text, a title, which seems to be flush with the left margin, or left justified. We might want to change this to center justification, let's say. To do that, we simply select our text, let's go into the left margin, we will click and drag down to highlight both lines. The quick formatting that pops up here does not apply to paragraph justification, so we need to go to the Paragraph section of the ribbon with the Home tab selected. In here, you'll see four options: Left, Center, Right, and full, or what we call Justify. So, let's go through these right now. The first one is selected or highlighted, indicating that indeed our two lines are left justified. The keyboard shortcut…

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