how do you create a new paragraph on MS Word for Mac?

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So sorry for this totally stupid question, but I have just spent the last hour and a half (I kid you not) trying to create a new paragraph on a word document in my Macbook. Sorry for being so dumb, but how do you actually indent new paragraphs when you want them? On my pc all I did was press the tab key which was perfect...but when I do that on this Macbook it doesn't indent like with a paragraph...but takes the text right to the very end of the line so that only one word shows on the line.

Sorry, hope i am explaining this properly...trying to work on an assignment and I am spending more time trying to work this out than working. It was so easy on my old computer, just press the tab key whenever you want to start a new paragraph?

Please can someone help me? Thanks so much.
 

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It should work the same way on the Mac version of MS Word. Did you check your justification setting?
 
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Thanks so much for your reply. I'm about to reinforce my stupidity here...but how do i do that? I..eh..just have used it as it came.
 
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Oooh, I have just found tab settings and it was set to 12.2 instead of 1.22 ? So changed that and it seems to be working, thanks so much!

Can I ask one more question if it is okay? How do you get the little numbers like you see on essays when referencing things up? Is there some key I can press to reduce the size of say a number one? Again..probably a totally basic question. Thanks very much!
 

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It should do what you want by default. Have you changed any settings?
 

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Oooh, I have just found tab settings and it was set to 12.2 instead of 1.22 ? So changed that and it seems to be working, thanks so much!

Can I ask one more question if it is okay? How do you get the little numbers like you see on essays when referencing things up? Is there some key I can press to reduce the size of say a number one? Again..probably a totally basic question. Thanks very much!

That's called subscript. Check the Help menu, as I don't have MS Word available to me at the moment.
 
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No..I haven't touched any settings at all. I wouldn't know where to begin! Even now though that I have 'fixed' the tab settings, despite setting them and pressing okay it keeps on changing back to the way where only one word appears on a line when you press tab, no idea why!

Subscript, fantastic. I will check help menu on that.

Thanks very much.
 
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You should take a word processing class. :p
 
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Actually, a footnote reference is a superscript, not subscript. And if you want the number to follow the note, you need to enter it as a footnote, not just as text.
 

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