Aligning and Spacing Text in Word 2007



The first tab in the Paragraph dialogue box is Indents and Spacing. Under General you can change the alignment and outline level of your paragraph. Indentation allows you to set left and right indents, or by clicking the Mirror button, inside and outside indents for pages that will be bound. The drop box under Special allows you to set a first line or a hanging indent and then you can specify by how much to indent.

At the bottom is a Tabs button which will open the Tabs dialogue box where multiple tab positions, alignment and leaders can be set. Clear All tabs will do just that by first selecting the text that needs to have the tabs removed then selecting Clear All.
The second tab, Line and Page Breaks provides options for Pagination, Formatting exceptions and Textbox options. By setting different options here you can control widows and orphans, keep headings with the paragraph that follows, force page breaks, allow automatic hyphenation and how tight the box wrap is around the text inside it.
The last two options under Line Spacing are Add Space Before Paragraph and Remove Space After Paragraph, which will affect either the paragraph where the cursor is or selected text.

Learning the basic functions of Word 7 can certainly help you when creating your documents and can take the mystery and frustration out of why there is space after every paragraph when you don't want or didn't put it there, or why text won't line up even though you put in plenty of spaces, or why some paragraphs are justified and other not, just to name a few.
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