

For this reason, this page is divided into the following sections, and the applicable options are described in each section. However, these options are not available in a single location, and some of these locations differ in different versions of Word.

Word's graphical user interface (GUI) provides ways to apply numerous formatting options to your paragraphs. Even a very simple document with a centered heading and a justified body contains paragraphs with two different types of formatting. Word documents generally contain paragraphs with different formatting.

A paragraph is a unit of text or other content that starts at the beginning of a document, immediately after a hard return (a carriage return), a page break, or a section break, or at the beginning of a table cell, header, footer, or list of footnotes and ends with a hard return (carriage return) or at the end of a table cell.
