The Paragraph dialog box has two tabs of Indents & Spacing and Line and Page Breaks. This is accessed by clicking on the dialog box launcher in the Paragraph group.

Paragraph formatting       Line and Page brakes

The Indent and spacing tabs allows the control of the paragraph alignment, indents, line spacing and paragraph spacing as discussed above

Line Spacing

Line spacing options

Single            This option accommodates the largest font (font: A graphic design applied to all numerals, symbols, and alphabetic characters. Also called type or typeface. Arial and Courier New are examples of fonts. Fonts usually come in different sizes, such as 10 point, and various styles, such as bold.) in that line, plus a small amount of extra space. The amount of extra space varies depending on the font that is used.

1.5 lines        This option is one-and-one-half times that of single line spacing.

Double          This option is twice that of single line spacing.

At least          This option sets the minimum line spacing that is needed to fit the largest font or graphic on the line.

Exactly          This option sets fixed line spacing, expressed in points. For example, if the text is in a 10-point font, you can specify 12 points as the line spacing.

Multiple         This option sets line spacing that can be expressed in numbers greater than 1. For example, setting line spacing to 1.15 will increase the space by 15 percent, and setting line spacing to 3 increases the space by 300 percent (triple spacing).

The following line and page break options are available:

Widow/Orphan Control

Ensures that the last line of a paragraph doesn’t appear by itself at the top of a new page (a widow) or that the first line of a paragraph doesn’t appear by itself at the bottom of a page (an orphan). Widow/ Orphan Control is selected by default.

Keep Lines Together

Prevents page breaks from occurring within a paragraph. When a page break is needed, Word moves the entire paragraph to the next page.

Keep With Next

Prevents a page break from occurring between the selected paragraph and the following paragraph. This feature can be useful when you’re using paragraphs that work together to create a single element, such as a table and a table caption or a heading and the following paragraph

Page Break Before

Inserts a page break before the selected paragraph. Typically this format is used in a Style, such as Heading 1, used for chapter headings so that each chapter will automatically start on a new page when the Heading 1 style is applied

 

Last Updated (Monday, 15 November 2010 15:33)