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 .
5. Next to 'Line spacing', tap - or + 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 .
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 Format .
5. Choose 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 .
5. In the Text selection, tap Style, Font, Size, Text colour or Highlight colour to format your font.