Section 12 - Using the Paragraph Dialog Box

You can make paragraph changes to a document through the Paragraph dialog box. The diagram below explains how to indent, justify, and set line spacing for a paragraph in Word XP, 2007 (Windows OS), and Word 2004 (MAC OS X).

To make changes using the Paragraph dialog box:

• Place the cursor in the paragraph you want to format.

• In Word XP and Mac Word 2004, click on the Format menu and select Paragraph.

• In Word 2007, click the Home tab and click the Dialog Box Launcher   located on the Paragraph group.

The Line and Page Breaks tab allows you to set rules for handling line breaks and page breaks, window/orphan control, (window and orphan: a window is the last line of a paragraph printed by itself at the top of a page. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph printed by itself at the bottom of a page.) turn automatic hyphenation off, and set tab stops for selected paragraphs.