Forget all the fancy graphics and other whatnot. A document consists of paragraphs, one after the other, flowing down the page. How you format those paragraphs is important. To perform that job, you have two choices.
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\nThe first choice, presented by default in Word, is to format each paragraph with a smidgen of space afterwards. The paragraph’s first line isn’t indented. This presentation is how the Normal style formats a paragraph by default. It’s also the same presentation used on this and other websites.<\/p>\n
The second choice is to remove the space after each paragraph and instead indent the paragraph’s first line. This formatting choice is presented frequently in printed material.<\/p>\n
The goal of both options is to make a long expanse of paragraphs readable. The human eye gets lost in the “great wall of text.” If you’ve ever lost your place when reading a long paragraph, you’ve experiencing this effect first hand. So your choices are to add space after the paragraph or indent the first line — but not both. That’s overkill.<\/p>\n
The following video demonstrates these two options in Word 2016.<\/p>\n