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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 color
- Bold, italicize, underline, or strikethrough text
Format paragraphs
Change paragraph spacing and alignmentChange paragraph alignment
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the paragraph you want to change.
- At the top, choose an alignment option.
Change line & paragraph spacing
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the lines you want to change.
- Click Format
Line & paragraph spacing.
- Select a line spacing option:
- To change your paragraph spacing, click Single, 1.15, 1.5, or Double.
- To change 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 want before and after a paragraph and click Apply.
- To keep paragraph headings and text on the same page, click Keep with next.
- To keep all lines of text in the same paragraph on the same page, click Keep lines together.
- To prevent single lines at the beginning or end of paragraphs, click Prevent single lines.
Important: Keep with next, Keep lines together, and Prevent single lines aren't available in documents that are in pageless format. To use these features, make sure your document is in pages format.
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the paragraph you want to change.
- Click Format
Paragraph styles
Borders and shading.
- In the window that opens, change how you want your paragraph to look.
- To remove paragraph borders or color, click Reset.
- When you are done, click Apply.
Format font
Change text case- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the text you want to change.
- Click Format
Text
Capitalization.
- Select lowercase, UPPERCASE, or Title Case.
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Highlight the text you want.
- At the top, select the font you want.
- Click Format
Paragraph styles
Normal text
Update 'Normal text' to match.
- With the text still highlighted, click Format
Paragraph styles
Options
Save as my default styles.
After you choose a font, your new documents will use this font unless you change it again.
In some languages, you can add new fonts to your font list.
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- At the top, click the font name to open the font list.
- At the bottom of the list, click More fonts.
- Browse or search for new fonts.
- Click a font to add it to your "My fonts" list.
- To sort your fonts or change how they appear in your list, use the "Show" and "Sort" arrows.
- Click Ok.
Fonts are available in these languages:
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bangla
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Croatian
- 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
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Select the text you want to change.
- Click Text Color
.
- Select the color you want.
- On your computer, open a document in Google docs.
- Select the text you want to change.
- Click Highlight Color
.
- Select the color you want.
- On your computer, open a document in Google docs.
- Select the text you want to change.
- Format the text.
- To bold: Click Bold
.
- To italicize: Click Italic
.
- To strikethrough: Click Format
Text
Strikethrough.
- To bold: Click Bold