Change how paragraphs and fonts look

               

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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 colour
• Bold, italicise, underline or strikethrough text

Format paragraphs

Change paragraph spacing

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit.
4. Tap Format tap Paragraph.
5. Next to 'Line spacing', use the arrows to choose the amount of space that you want between the lines in the paragraph.

Change paragraph alignment

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
4. Tap Format tap Paragraph.
5. Choose an alignment option.

Format fonts

Bold, italicise or underline text

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
4. Tap a format option.

Change font style, size or colour

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open a document in the Google Docs app.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Double-tap the place in your document that you want to edit. Move the blue markers to select more text.
4. Tap Format tap Text.
5. In the menu, tap Style, Font, Size, Text colour or Highlight colour to format your font.