How can I make a new paragraph?

So I added style to paragraph in order to give it a nice underline:

Unfortunatelly, I can see no way to exit this paragraph and make a new one. I tried Ctrl+Enter, Alt+Enter and Shift+Enter, but I always end up with this:

So how can I make a new paragraph? And how can I visualise existing paragraphs similarly to the way MS Word does it?

Hi MXXIV

You give zero indication of either LO version nor OS+version, so it is difficult to be exact.

You add a border to your paragraphs by formatting the Style. This is how to make a temporary change (edit the style (F11) if you want it permanent):

  • (menu):FormatParagraph...Borders

These are the effects with variants on the Enter keyboard command:

  • Enter/⏎ (Return) :: New paragraph :: (U+000D) CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
  • Shift+Enter/⏎ (Shift+Return) :: New Line (same paragraph) :: (U+000A)
    LINE FEED (LF)
  • Ctrl+Enter/⏎ (Ctrl+Return) :: New Page :: (U+000C) FORM FEED (FF)

Next, your difficulties with this (easily explained, I hope):

“I tried Ctrl+Enter, Alt+Enter and Shift+Enter, but I always end up with this…”

Using Enter will start a new paragraph. The new paragraph will have exactly the same style as the old paragraph. If you do not want that, then create all the paragraphs first & go back afterwards to give them their unique styling.

If this helps then please tick the answer (:heavy_check_mark:)

…and/or show you like it with an uptick ()

it helps a lot, making a border around all the paragraphs.