TOPIC: PARAGRAPHING

A paragraph is a part of a document or a group of sentences that deals with a particular idea.

TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS

There are three different types of paragraphs:

1. BLOCKED PARAGRAPH: All lines including the first line of the paragraph begin from the left margin e.g. business or official letter. 

2. INDENTED PARAGRAPH: The first line begins after five spaces (pica) six spaces for the elite from the left.

3. HANGING PARAGRAPH: This is one in which the first line of each paragraph begins three spaces to the left of the subsequent lines. With this method, typing can be done on single-line spacing as well as double-line spacing. E.g. legal matters, poems, drama.

PAGE SET – UP

Page setup means parameters that are normally defined by a user and which help to determine how a printed page will appear.

These parameters can include everything from margins, quality print, size, etc.

Text Alignment

This is found in the program’s toolbar. It may be shown as a row of four icons:

Left-aligned, right-aligned, centered, and justified options.

1. LEFT ALIGNED: it is also called flush left or left justified. It is used just as a blocked style, each line begins along the left margin of the document. A straight margin is formed on the left and an uneven margin is formed on the right

2. RIGHT ALIGNED: it is also known as right justified or flush right. Each line of text begins along the right margin of the document in this kind of setting. The text expands to the left of the cursor. If more than one line is typed, the next line begins along the right margin.

3. CENTRED ALIGNED: text that is centered text is placed in the centre of each line. The text expands equally to the left and right and it leaves the same amount of space on either side.                                                                                                                                                     

4. JUSTIFIED ALIGNED: it combines left and right-aligned text, when a block of text is justified, each line fills the entire space from left to right the text occupies 100% of the space.