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Top tips for Word for Mac 2016 After five years, the new version of Microsoft Office for Mac brings plenty of changes, so here’s our guide to the new Office suite, starting with Word 2016. Show Paragraph marks in Word for Mac. In Word for Mac, the Show Paragraph marks button is handily already in the top toolbar. Press the button and all your formatting will become visible. If you press the button again, the formatting should disappear.
By Word 2016’s paragraph-level formatting commands affect paragraphs in a document. That makes complete sense, but what is a paragraph? Officially, a paragraph is any chunk of text that ends when you press the Enter key. So a single character, a word, a sentence, or a document full of sentences is a paragraph, so long as you press the Enter key. The paragraph symbol appears in a document to mark the end of a paragraph. Normally this character is hidden, but you can order Word to display it for you.
Follow these steps:. Click the File tab. Choose the Options command. The Word Options dialog box appears. Click Display. Place a check mark by Paragraph Marks.
Now, every time you press the Enter key, the symbol appears, marking the end of a paragraph. Formatting a paragraph You can format a paragraph in several ways:. Change an existing paragraph. With the insertion pointer in a paragraph, use a paragraph-formatting command. Only the current paragraph format is changed. Change a block of paragraphs.
Select one or more paragraphs and then use the formatting command to affect the lot. Just start typing. Choose a paragraph-formatting command, and then type a paragraph. The chosen format is applied to the new text.
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To format all paragraphs in a document, press Ctrl+A to select all text in the document and then apply the format. If your desire is to format several paragraphs in the same manner, consider creating a new style.
Locating the paragraph-formatting commands In a vain effort to confuse you, Word uses not one but two locations on the Ribbon to house paragraph-formatting commands. The first Paragraph group is found on the Home tab. The second is located on the Layout tab. Both groups are illustrated here.