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MS Word 2002 - Formatting text on the page w.jpg (815 bytes)


Text Justification

What is justification?

This line is left justified.

The line is centre justified

This line is right justified.

Full justify is when your paragraph has both left and right justify at the same time.

The icons in the toolbar should explain that further for you. Normal justification is left. When you click on one of the justification icons (e.g. centre) the justification of the document will change (to centre justification, for example) from the point where your cursor is onwards. It will not return to the original justification (left) until you once again select it by clicking on the icon (the left justify icon in this example).

You can highlight text and then choose a justification just for the highlighted portion.

Paragraph Indent

         To indent the first line of a paragraph (as shown in this paragraph), you place your cursor at the beginning of the line (in front of the first word) and then press the Tab key on the keyboard.

To indent the entire paragraph (as shown in this paragraph) you place your cursor anywhere in the paragraph, and then click on the Increase Indent icon on the right-hand  side of the formatting toolbar.indent.jpg (1080 bytes) To reverse the process click on the Decrease  Indent icon.

Line Spacing

Normal line spacing is single spacing. You can change this

Click on Format

Click on Paragraph


Go to Line spacing:
Click on the black triangle
Choose the spacing you want by clicking on it

Click on OK

Page Margins

The default (normal) margin around the page is 2.5cm (1 inch) on top and bottom and 3.17cm on the left and right. You can adjust these by

Clicking on File       
Click on Page Setup       
Click on Margins

Use the up and down arrow to adjust the value of the margin or click on the value itself and change it by typing in a value of your choice.

 

Margin settings apply to the whole page unless you choose the option to Apply to:   and then  click on Selected text (if you want the margin to apply to only a section fo text that you have selected).


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