You can use the toolbar at the top of a document to:
- Edit and format the text and paragraph spacing
- Change the font and background colour
- Bold, italicise, underline or strikethrough text
Format paragraphs
Change paragraph spacing
- On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
- Tap Edit .
- Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit.
- Tap Format .
- Next to 'Line spacing', tap - or + to choose the amount of space that you want between the lines in the paragraph.
Change paragraph alignment
- On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
- Tap Edit .
- Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
- Tap Format .
- Choose an alignment option.
Format fonts
Bold, italicise or underline text
- On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
- Tap Edit .
- Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
- Tap Format .
- Choose a format option.
Change font style, size or colour
- On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
- Tap Edit .
- Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
- Tap Format .
- In the Text selection, tap Style, Font, Size, Text colour or Highlight colour to format your font.