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Manually Changing the Look of Paragraphs 121<br />

Keyboard Shortcut Press Shift+Enter to insert a line break.<br />

You can also determine the positioning of a paragraph between the left and right margins<br />

<strong>by</strong> changing its alignment. You can click buttons in the Paragraph group on the Home tab<br />

to align paragraphs.<br />

● Align Left Aligns each line of the paragraph at the left margin, with a ragged<br />

right edge<br />

Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+L to left-align a paragraph.<br />

● Center Aligns the center of each line in the paragraph between the left and right<br />

margins, with ragged left and right edges<br />

Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+E to center-align a paragraph.<br />

● Align Right Aligns each line of the paragraph at the right margin, with a ragged<br />

left edge<br />

Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+R to right-align a paragraph.<br />

● Justify Aligns each line between the margins, creating even left and right edges<br />

Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+J to justify a paragraph.<br />

Tip If you know that you want to create a centered paragraph, you don’t have to type<br />

the text and then align the paragraph. You can use the Click And Type feature to create<br />

appropriately aligned text. Move the pointer to the center of a blank area of the page, and<br />

when the pointer’s shape changes to an I-beam with centered text attached, double-click to<br />

insert the cursor in a centered paragraph. Similarly, you can double-click at the left edge of<br />

the page to enter left-aligned text and at the right edge to enter right-aligned text.<br />

You can align lines of text in different locations across the page <strong>by</strong> using tab stops.<br />

The easiest way to set tab stops is to use the horizontal ruler. By default, Word sets<br />

left-aligned tab stops every half inch (1.27 centimeters), as indicated <strong>by</strong> gray marks<br />

below the ruler. To set a custom tab stop, you start <strong>by</strong> clicking the Tab button located<br />

at the left end of the ruler until the type of tab stop you want appears. You have the<br />

following options:<br />

● Left Tab Aligns the left end of the text with the tab stop<br />

● Center Tab Aligns the center of the text with the tab stop<br />

● Right Tab Aligns the right end of the text with the tab stop<br />

● Decimal Tab Aligns the decimal point in the text (usually a numeric value) with<br />

the tab stop<br />

● Bar Tab Draws a vertical line at the position of the tab stop

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