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Configure paragraph layout options

Configure paragraph layout options

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Configure paragraph layout options

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- [Jen] Using the Paragraph options in Microsoft Word, we can configure the way hyphens are displayed, turn on line numbering, and we can also control the paragraph pagination of our documents. Let's take a look at our Advanced Layout document, and a couple of things that I see I'd like to do to this document are to, first of all, indent the first line of each paragraph. So, that's something that we can control using our Layout tab and our Paragraph group. I'll go ahead and click on the Paragraph More button to open our Paragraph settings. Click on the Indents and Spacing tab so that we can see General Alignment is now set to the left, the Outline level is set to Body Text. Here is the Indentation section where I can say I want the indentation to be a half-inch, and notice, I can do it either from the left margin and/or the right margin, and I can then select, under Special, whether I want to apply this to the first line…

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