When designing a variety of documents in Microsoft Word, you have to resort to formatting them. For example, you may need to change the amount of indentation of a red line.
Why paragraphs in the text
A paragraph (or red line) is a structural element that is logically complete and includes a micro theme of the main text. This is a necessary element of any document, helping the text not to merge into a single whole, but to have a logically formed structure. From the point of view of computer programs, a paragraph is any text that ends with the press of the enter key.
Rules for changing paragraph width
There are two ways to change the width of the paragraph indent in a Word document. First, you can select the text with the left mouse button, then right-click on the selected text. In the window that opens, select "Paragraph", then "Tabulation". You can see at the same time that the default paragraph indent is 1.25 cm. If the paragraph should be of a different size, then you must enter the data and save the changes. Now the indentation will be as needed. This is a way in which the paragraph will be set exactly to the millimeter.
The second way to change the red line is implemented using the "ruler" tool located on the toolbar. The ruler is located on the left and top, but it can be hidden. To activate the tool, left-click on a small square in the upper right corner - a scale with divisions and a marker on it will appear.
When you hover over a marker, or slider, of the horizontal ruler, you will see tooltips for "left indent", "indent", and "first line indent". You need the first line indent to change the width of the paragraph. Fix the mouse cursor near the first line, left-click on the marker at the top, where the inscription "first line indent" appears, and use the ruler to set the desired size. If the text has already been typed, and there are no paragraphs yet, then you need to select the entire text completely, then again use the slider. Paragraphs of the correct size appear throughout the text. It is more of a visual way of forming a paragraph, less precise than the previous one.
Paragraph indentation can be positive, zero (when aligning text to the center), and negative when the first line protrudes closer to the left edge of the sheet. Paragraph indents in Word documents are measured in centimeters.
Need to know
It is important to remember that paragraph indents should never be done with the space bar. In this case, further formatting will cause problems, since the lines may "move out". Correctly formatting the paragraphs will subsequently save time when rebuilding the document.
