Paragraph Formatting
Herb Tyson · 2010
This chapter tells style shunners what paragraph formatting is, what it's for, and how to use it. It also tells style users the same things, but the latter will have a broader context for it all as well as a strategy, because paragraph formatting is integral to paragraph style formatting. The chapter explores the ins and outs of direct paragraph formatting the following are: Decide when to use direct formatting, and when to use a style, distinguish between paragraph-formatting attributes and other kinds of attributes, properly indent and align any paragraph, as well as determine how to find and use the appropriate tools, apply and remove bullets and numbering, use shading and boxes to highlight paragraphs, explain at the next cocktail party what those strange square dots are at the left side of certain paragraphs, and decide when to use tabs versus when to use a table.