A paragraph is a distinct section of text, usually dealing with a single idea and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering. An indentation is an empty space between the left margin and the beginning of the text, usually one tab space.
These days, it has become more common to begin paragraphs without the indentation and to separate paragraphs by a blank paragraph or two carriage returns—on our keyboards, we just hit the Enter key twice.
However, we don't really need to do this—there are other more efficient ways of separating paragraphs.
Open an iWork Pages document and then open the Text Inspector. Click on Inspector in the toolbar or press Command + Option + I .
In Spacing, click in the After Paragraph window and type a size in points (points are the traditional typographical measure of the size of letters and other typography signs, 0.351 mm in the US and Britain and 0.376 mm in Europe). Alternatively, use the up...