# 8.4. Formatting paragraph

This section will detail all the options available to format your paragraphs.

Before you start formating a paragraph, ensure your cursor is currently located in the paragraph you want to format.

The formatting paragraphs dialog consists of 5 tabbed sections labled "Indent and spacing", "Flows", "Borders", "Numbering", and "Tabulators"

This dialog box allows you to set the paragraph margins, the spacing between lines, and the spacing between paragraphs.

The first section of this dialog box is labled "Indent", and consists of three parts:

"Left"

  You can indent all the lines of a paragraph by entering a value in this box. The first line is unaffected by this box. If you want to alter the first line, you must specify that seperately.

"Right"

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"First Line"

  Any non-zero value entered in this text box, will shift the left margin of the first line.

The next section is labled "Line Spacing". It consists of two elements:

Dropdown box

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Text box

  By entering a value in here, you can adjust the spacing between lines from the default. If you enter a positive number, you will increase the spacing between lines. If, on the other hand, you enter a negative number, you will decrease the spacing between lines.

  | Changes to this entry do NOT affect the line spaceing between lines of different paragraphs.

The last section is labled "Paragraph Space". It consists of two entries:

"Before"

  By entering a value in here, you can adjust the spacing before each paragraph from the default spacing. If you enter a positive number, you will increase the spacing before a paragraph. If, on the other hand, you enter a negative number, you will decrease the spacing before each paragraph.

"After"

  By entering a value in here, you can adjust the spacing after each paragraph from the default spacing. If you enter a positive number, you will increase the spacing after a paragraph. If, on the other hand, you enter a negative number, you will decrease the spacing after each paragraph.

On the right of the dialog box, is a preview box, which will approximate the final layout of your document.

The next section is labled "Flows". This section determines how the text is placed within the line. With other packages, you may have referred to flows as "Alighment", or "Justfication".

As you can see, there are only 4 choices.

If you choose "Left", "Right" or "Center", the text will be moved on the line.

If you choose "Block", KWord will increase the space between words, so that each line (with the exception of the last liine), reaches both the left and right margins.

On the right of the dialog box, is a preview box, which will approximate the final layout of your document.

The next section is labled "Borders".

You can tell KWord to surround (on some or all sides) a paragraph with a border. This border can be solid or not, of any color and of any size. You use this dialog panel to adjust the borders.

To define some borders for a paragraph, you first determine how the borders should appear on the document. Then you select which paragraph borders should be used. You can mix and match styles, weights and colors of paragraph borders for maximum flexibility in you document.

Determine the "Look" of the border.

"Style"

  You can use this dropdown box to select the overall type of the new border.

  Your choices are: Solid Line, Dash Line, Dot line, Dash Dot line, Dash Dot Dot line

"Width"

  This will determine how wide the resulting border will be. It is measured in points.

"Color"

  Clicking on the color bar will allow you to select a color using a new dialog box

Selecting the borders

| Select/Unselect Left Border. Clicking this button will apply the current options to the left paragraph border. Clicking a second time will remove the left paragraph border.
| Select/Unselect Right Border. Clicking this button will apply the current options to the right paragraph border. Clicking a second time will remove the right paragraph border.
| Select/Unselect Top Border. Clicking this button will apply the current options to the top paragraph border. Clicking a second time will remove the top paragraph border.
| Select/Unselect Bottom Border. Clicking this button will apply the current options to the bottom paragraph border. Clicking a second time will remove the bottom paragraph border.

The "Preview" window will show you how your paragraph borders will look.

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This dialog is used to adjust the tab stops. For more details, see Using Tab Stops.