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Changing paragraph alignment and justification

Changing paragraph alignment and justification

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Changing paragraph alignment and justification

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- Formatting paragraphs in your documents can have a visual effect that changes the look and readability of your document. So, in this chapter we're going to focus on paragraph formatting beginning with alignment. Let's start with this file called LH_press_release0401. You'll find it in the chapter four folder of your exercise files. And as you can see, moving down through both pages, everything seems to be lined up on the left. We have this nice flat line over here on the right-hand side you can see text is not lined up on the right-hand margin. So that's something to consider. Let's start with the title, though, that should be centered. All we have to do is click in the left-hand margin next to our title to select it, and go to the paragraph group here to see that indeed it is left-aligned it's on the left margin and then we have some other options here. The next button over is center, notice that there is a keyboard shortcut ctrl + e will center this paragraph. There's also right…

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