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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.
- 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