Setting Paragraph Styles
As opposed to format small portions of text within a paragraph, appliance of paragraph styles is useful to format larger amounts of text. To set certain styles for a whole paragraph or for several paragraphs at a time
The selected attributes making up the desired paragraph style are applied to all paragraphs that are contained in or enclosing the current selection.
An advantage of using paragraph styles is the ability to set several attributes in one step and as well minimization of storage space because paragraph styles are stored once for each paragraph concerned.
The Paragraph Style Dialog
The following image shows the paragraph style dialog
the paragraph style dialog
In the paragraph style dialog all attributes of a paragraph style can be set at once. There are two tabs grouping text (font, color, etc.) and position styles (margin, alignment). See topic ' Using named styles' about how to create and save styles for later use.
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