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okay so we're using Google Docs and
we're going over the formatting options
for a document let's focus on this first
paragraph so if we want to have just a
first line indent so if you hover over
this rectangle and the triangle it's
going to show you the top ones first
line indent and the bottom one is the
left indent for the entire paragraph so
if you have the regular looking mouse
icon you're on one of those two if you
go up a tiny bit more you're gonna get
that left right arrow and that's
changing the margin we're gonna circle
back to that in a minute right now we're
gonna be on first line indent if I use
the left mouse key and I drag it over to
a half an inch that's gonna do just what
hitting the tab button does it'll give
you a first line indent on this
paragraph and only on this paragraph
because it's all that you had selected
if you want it on others select all
those paragraphs before you do it and if
you want the entire paragraph to be
indented on the left or the right let's
do the right this time go over to the
triangle left click on it and drag it
will move that an entire inch we start
at six and a half let's go to five and a
half and there you go that's changed the
indentation for that pair but if you
want to do this for the entire document
you would do that by changing the amount
of this gray area now this gray area is
called the margin it's not called the
indentation and the easiest way to get
to it is by going to file and then page
setup and these are your default
settings and sometimes the left might be
larger than the right especially if you
want to accommodate for something like
halt punches if you're back in 1985 and
this is where you can also change your
orientation so if you want it to be on
its side if you will which would be
landscape do that here oriented the
other way go back to page setup we'll
change it back to portrait but if we
wanted to change the left margin to
three inches do it here and it will
change it on the entire dock
not just a particular paragraph we're
gonna change that back by just doing
undo and let's move our page orientation
back to portrait here was on landscape
let's move it to portrait and we're back
to where we started if you wanted some
of your content to be in columns let's
select say these three paragraphs and
just go to format and choose columns
let's put it in three columns and it
automatically does it for you there's a
couple options that you can do that I
think make it look a little bit better
if you go to columns and more options
you can put lines in between them you
could also change the spacing in between
the columns but if I click apply for the
lines it just makes it a little bit
visually easier to see and once you have
the document looking the way that you
want it you might want to have page
numbers or headers and footers and those
are pretty intuitive and Google Docs the
area above the beginning of the document
body if I hit my up arrow right now I
can't go any higher that's where your
header resides and to get there just
take your mouse and you left-click in it
so if you wanted this to the left you
would use the same alignment options to
move it to the left and if you wanted it
bigger let's say just change it to a
subtitle and then type in what you want
by virtue of it being a header and not
part of the body text it's going to
repeat on every page so if I scroll down
to the second page that header is also
on this page but if you want the first
header to be let's say blank but you
want a different header on the
subsequent pages you would just use that
check mark and then go down to the
second one and put in your header and if
we scroll down the page 3 you can see
that that header is going on all the
subsequent pages but if we go back to
page 1 you can see it's not on first
page and one other thing that you can do
that's a nice built in function for
google
knocks I can save you a lot of time is
to insert page numbers there we go to
insert and header and page number we've
already done the header you do a foot or
the exact same way just go to the bottom
but let's do page numbers and for this
particular document let's say we don't
want it to start numbering until the
second page okay but we want it in the
upper right hand corner let's left-click
on that option and you see we're on the
first page but nothing is showing up
there if I scroll down to the second
page it starts at one and then gave me a
two on the third page now another thing
that you might want to format on your
document and we'll just do it on this
second paragraph is the line spacing if
you go up to the format and you go to
that line spacing option there's a
couple different things going on here so
the default is at 1.15 and what that's
doing is putting enough space in here so
that your eye can read the text without
it looking cluttered so you can change
it to single if you need to squeeze in a
lot of typing this is gonna be a little
bit harder to read but you see it's
still it's not that bad if you want to
space it out just choose double spacing
but an important thing to note here is
that if you want more space before and
after the paragraphs I wouldn't do it by
pressing the enter key more so a
shortcut way to do it just hit the enter
key right and you get more space here
I'm going to backspace I'm going to undo
that and the better way to do that
because you're going to be doing it
multiple times through whole document is
to change the spacing before and after
the paragraph let's go to custom spacing
to see this a little bit better so
there's your default spacing right now
before it's zero and after it's ten if
you change the after to 20 see the
amount of space now if I click apply you
see a little bit more so those are your
kind of next-level options for
formatting a document part one we showed
you how to format the text and how to
use default styles so now we've gone
over the paragraph styling and the page
setup options so I hope that was helpful
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