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Controlling space before and after paragraphs
Space Before and Space After controls let you specify the amount of space before and
after selected paragraphs.
To set the space before and after selected paragraphs, do one of the following things:
Choose Style > Formats, then enter values in the Space Before or Space After fields.
Use the Space Before Paragraph and Space After Paragraph controls in the Paragraph
Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.
Setting tabs
You can choose from six kinds of tab stops:
Left aligns text flush left on the tab stop.
Center aligns text centrally on that tab stop.
Right aligns text flush right on the tab stop.
Decimal aligns text on a decimal point (period).
Comma aligns text on a first comma.
Align On aligns text on any character you specify. When you select this tab, the Align
On field displays. Select the existing entry, and enter the character to align on.
If you do not set custom tabs, the application sets default left-aligned tabs every half-inch.
To apply tabs to selected paragraphs, do one of the following things:
Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style > Tabs).
Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Measurements palette. Using the Measurements
palette conserves screen space, and you continuously see the effects updated as you change
tab settings. You can drag tab icons to the ruler or drag tab icons directly into text. When
you are dragging tabs to the ruler or to text, a vertical line displays on screen to help you
decide where to position the tab.
Controlling widow and orphan lines
Widows and orphans are two kinds of typographically undesirable lines. Traditionally, a
widow is defined as the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top of a column. An orphan
is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a column.
Using the Keep Lines Together feature, you can choose not to break paragraphs, so that
if all the lines in a paragraph do not fit in a column or on a page, the whole paragraph
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