Formatting paragraphs

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You can apply many formats to paragraphs using the buttons on the Formatting toolbar. The Formatting toolbar is shown below as a floating toolbar, customized to show only the buttons for paragraph formatting.

Image:Tip.pngIt is highly recommended that you use paragraph styles rather than manually formatting paragraphs, especially for long or standardized documents. For information on the advantages of styles and how to use them, see Chapter 6 (Introduction to Styles) in the Writer Guide.
Formatting toolbar.
Formatting toolbar.
1 Styles and Formatting window  8 Line Spacing: 1.5
2 Apply Style9 Line Spacing: 2
3 Align Left10 Numbering On/Off
4 Centered11 Bullets On/Off
5 Align Right12 Decrease Indent
6 Justified13 Increase Indent
7 Line Spacing: 114 Paragraph Format dialog

The Formatting toolbar, showing buttons for paragraph formatting.

Below are examples of the different alignment options for text.

Text alignment options.
Text alignment options.
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