Change how paragraphs & fonts look

Yous tin can apply the toolbar at the tiptop of a document to:

  • Edit and format the text and paragraph spacing
  • Modify the font and background color
  • Assuming, italicize, underline, or strikethrough text

Format paragraphs

Change paragraph spacing and alignment

Modify paragraph alignment

  1. On your computer, open a certificate in Google Docs.
  2. Select the paragraph y'all desire to change.
  3. At the top, choose an alignment option.

Change line & paragraph spacing

  1. On your computer, open up a document in Google Docs.
  2. Select the lines yous want to change.
  3. ClickFormat and then  Line & paragraph spacing.
  4. Select a line spacing pick:
    • To modify your paragraph spacing, click Single, 1.fifteen, i.five, or Double.
    • To alter your spacing between paragraphs, click Remove space before paragraph or Add space after paragraph.
    • To enter a custom size, click Custom spacing. Then, enter the size of the spacing you lot desire before and after a paragraph and click Employ.
    • To keep paragraph headings and text on the same page, click Keep with next.
    • To proceed all lines of text in the aforementioned paragraph on the aforementioned page, click Keep lines together.
    • To forestall unmarried lines at the get-go or finish of paragraphs, click Prevent single lines.

Modify paragraph borders or color

Format font

Alter text case

  1. On your calculator, open a document in Google docs.
  2. Select the text you want to modify.
  3. Click Text Color Color text .
  4. Select the color you want.

Choose a default font

Add fonts to your font listing

In some languages, you can add together new fonts to your font listing.

  1. On your figurer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. At the top, click the font name to open the font list.
  3. At the lesser of the listing, click More fonts.
  4. Browse or search for new fonts.
    • Click a font to add it to your "My fonts" list.
    • To sort your fonts or modify how they announced in your listing, utilise the "Show" and "Sort" arrows.
  5. Click Ok.

Available languages

Fonts are bachelor in these languages:

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bangla
  • Burmese
  • Catalan
  • Croation
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Kyrgyz
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Marä thi
  • Mongolian
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  • Farsi
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese

Alter the font color

  1. On your computer, open up a document in Google docs.
  2. Select the text you want to alter.
  3. Click Text Color Color text .
  4. Select the color you lot desire.

Modify the background or highlight colour

  1. On your figurer, open a document in Google docs.
  2. Select the text you want to change.
  3. Click Highlight ColorHighlight text.
  4. Select the color y'all want.

Assuming, italicize, or strikethrough text

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