Too many or too few hard returns can ruin an otherwise professional looking Microsoft Word document. Fortunately, it's easy to add and replace those hard returns using Word's Replace feature.

Learn how to adjust sentence, word, and paragraph spacing automatically while pasting in Word using in-built setting, GPEDIT, and REGEDIT.

How to Add Carriage Returns in MS Word. "Carriage return" is a term commonly used with typewriters that you still hear today when business people talk about word processing.

Often it's as simple as wanting to move a paragraph (or a "graf," in writer lingo) up or down a little, swapping positions with the neighboring paragraph.

Following the announcement of the "Separate Pages" view in Word for the Web, Microsoft revealed new paragraph customization tools for better control of your document flow and look.

How to Turn Off the Paragraph Symbol in Word. Microsoft Word includes formatting options that allow you to view all types of normally invisible marks, such as spaces, tabs and paragraphs.

You can create a hanging indent on Word by adjusting the format options. Hanging indents are commonly used in works cited and bibliographies.

Sometimes you want to remove those tabs that indent your paragraphs. But in a long document, that could be a nightmare. Here are two quick solutions.

Like other formatting symbols, the Paragraph Marks ¶ can be of huge help. But you can turn off these Paragraph marks in Word, if you wish to.