Creating a general paragraph style

What is meant to be a general paragraph style. In your academic documents such as thesis or other research reports, you will have a paragraph style that is the most often used throughout your document. Let us call this as a general paragraph and create a style for it. It is very convenient to create a general paragraph style to change the appearance of your paragraph and not directly change the paragraph texts from within the text area.

Before you do creating a general paragraph style, please check your academic writing guideline (if you have one) on how a particular paragraph should be produced. See, for example, whether the first line of each paragraph should be indented for how much or not need to be indented, spacing of each line within that paragraph, etc. Below we will try to generate a general paragraph which is a common style to a graduate thesis. Once you understand how to do this, you can adjust the style according to your particular needs.

1. Open your Academic Document
2. Put your cursor anywhere in your document where you want to put the paragraph; here is under Background sub chapter
3. In the Style panel click New Style (at the bottom left of the panel)

4. In the appearing window, give a name for that new style such as General Paragraph
5. Click Format and then Paragraph to modify the paragraph style of that General Paragraph. As an example, here we use Justified for Allignment, First line by 1 cm for Special Indentation, and 1.5 lines for Line spacing. You can leave other attributes as such.

6. Click OK
7. Click OK once more.
8. Save your Academic Document

Now the General Paragraph style is on the Style panel. Try to type text now with the General Paragraph style. You can compare that by typing another text with Normal style. See the following image from your Academic Document.

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