Paragraph Formatting Controls

Control	How it works
Justification Styles	Click justification buttons to align text to left, right, or center of text box.
Left Indent	Use the control box to adjust the amount of space between the left edge of the text box and the text within it.
First Line Left Indent	Use the control box to adjust the amount of left indentation applied to the first line of each paragraph within the text box.
Right Indent	Use the control box to adjust the amount of space between the right edge of the text box and the text within it.
Last Line Right Indent	Use the control box to adjust the amount of right indentation applied to the last line of each paragraph within the text box.
Space Before	Use the control box to increase or decrease amount of space before a paragraph in the text box. Note: When all text in text box is selected, the space before each paragraph is applied evenly.
Drop Cap Number of Lines	Use the control box to increase or decrease the size of the first letter of a paragraph.
Space After	Use the control box to increase or decrease amount of space after a paragraph in the text box. Note: When all text in text box is selected, the space after each paragraph is applied evenly.
Drop Cap One or More Characters	After applying Drop Cap Number of Lines, use the control box to increase or decrease the number of characters included in the drop cap.
Bulleted List	Select the text you would like to include in a bulleted list. Click the bulleted list button. Each paragraph in the selected text will have a bullet.
Numbered List	Select the text you would like to include in a numbered list. Click the bulleted list button. Each paragraph in the selected text will have a sequential number.
Shading	Click the Shading checkbox to apply a color to the background of a selected paragraph. Use Shading color drop-down list to set color.
Shading Color
Paragraph Style
Hyphenate	Select hyphenated line break text. Deselect Hyphenate checkbox to remove hyphenated line break.
Do not align to baseline grid	Removes Align to baseline grid feature (see below.)
Align to baseline grid	Aligns bottom of text to horizontal baseline guides. Note: This feature is off by default.
Number of Columns	Use control box to set the number of columns within a selected text box.
Gutter	Use control box to increase or decrease space between columns.
Span Columns	Use drop-down list to set the number of columns a selected paragraph will span.