How to Format Paragraphs in Notepad
Windows 7's Notepad program is designed only to manipulate basic text. Advanced formatting features such as centering paragraphs or double-spacing them do not exist. However, you do have a few rudimentary tools for formatting paragraphs, such as enabling word wrap, adjusting margins and using keyboard formatting tools. To adjust spacing in or between paragraphs, using keyboard tabs, spaces and carriage returns are you best bet.
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Instructions
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Open your text document in Notepad, or create or new document.
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Click "Format" in the top menu, and select "Word Wrap" to constrain the text to the visible window.
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Click "File" and then "Page Setup." Enter values for the left and right margins to manipulate the paragraph so it fits within a specified area.
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Click just before the first character in your paragraph and press the "Tab" key to indent the first line of the paragraph. To fine-tune the indentation, press your space bar to add a single space.
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Click anywhere in the paragraph and press "Enter" to insert a line break in the paragraph.
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Tips & Warnings
Although limited in features, Notepad is useful for creating basic text documents, such as HTML pages or textual databases, since it does encode the resulting file with formatting options.
