How to Use WPS Layout and Arrange on macOS

This how-to guide includes 13 operation topics for paragraph cleanup, indentation settings, text wrapping, grouping, and layer order changes; 13 topics are available without membership and 0 are membership-related.

How-to Index

How-to Guide

1. Paragraph Organizing

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → Paragraph Organizing

1. Select the paragraphs you want to organize.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Select Paragraph Organizing.
5. Wait for WPS to remove extra blank paragraphs and improve paragraph spacing.

Success Criteria

• Extra blank paragraphs in the selected content are reduced.
• Paragraph spacing looks more consistent and the document remains editable.

Tips While Using

• Confirm the selection range first so that you do not reorganize content you want to keep unchanged.

2. Paragraph Rearrangement

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → Paragraph Rearrangement

1. Select the paragraphs you want to process.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Select Paragraph Rearrangement.
5. Review the adjusted paragraph formatting.

Success Criteria

• Paragraph formatting is rearranged.
• The document structure looks more consistent and can still be edited.

3. Hanging Indent Alignment

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → Hanging Indent Alignment

1. Select the paragraphs you want to set.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Select Hanging Indent Alignment.

Success Criteria

• The paragraph shows a hanging indent effect.

4. First-Line Indent by 2 Characters

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → First-Line Indent by 2 Characters

1. Select the paragraphs you want to set.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Select First-Line Indent by 2 Characters.

Success Criteria

• The first line of the paragraph is indented by 2 characters.

5. More Paragraph Processing

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → More Paragraph Processing

1. Select the paragraphs you want to process.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Open More Paragraph Processing.
5. Choose the needed option, such as Convert to Empty Paragraph Separation Style, Convert Line Breaks to Carriage Returns, Convert First-Line Indent to Spaces, or Add Empty Paragraphs.

Success Criteria

• The selected paragraphs are processed according to the option you chose.

Tips While Using

• Save the document before running a batch conversion if you want to compare the result afterward.

6. Delete Tools

Feature path: Home → Text Layout → Delete

1. Select the paragraphs or document content you want to process.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Text Layout drop-down menu.
4. Open the Delete menu.
5. Choose Delete Empty Paragraphs, Delete Spaces at Paragraph Start, Delete Spaces, Delete Line Breaks, or Delete Blank Pages.

Success Criteria

• The selected blank paragraphs, spaces, line breaks, or blank pages are removed.

7. Text Wrapping

Feature path: Home → Arrange → Text Wrapping

1. Select the picture or shape you want to adjust.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Text Wrapping.
5. Choose the wrapping style you need.

Success Criteria

• Text flows around the object and the page layout changes accordingly.

Tips While Using

• Select the object first. If nothing is selected, wrapping options cannot be applied directly.

8. Align Objects

Feature path: Home → Arrange → Align

1. Select multiple objects that you want to align.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Align.
5. Choose the alignment option you need.

Success Criteria

• Multiple objects are aligned in the selected direction.

9. Rotate Objects

Feature path: Home → Arrange → Rotate

1. Select the object you want to rotate.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Rotate.
5. Choose the rotation option you need.

Success Criteria

• The object direction changes.

10. Group Objects

Feature path: Select multiple objects → Home → Arrange → Group

1. Select the objects you want to group.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Group.

Success Criteria

• Multiple objects can be moved or adjusted as one unit.

11. Ungroup Objects

Feature path: Select a grouped object → Home → Arrange → Group → Ungroup

1. Select the grouped object.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Ungroup.

Success Criteria

• The grouped object returns to separate editable objects.

12. Bring Objects Forward

Feature path: Home → Arrange → Bring Forward

1. Select the object whose layer order you want to change.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Bring Forward.
5. Choose Bring Forward, Bring to Front, or Float Above Text as needed.

Success Criteria

• The object moves to a higher display layer.

13. Send Objects Backward

Feature path: Home → Arrange → Send Backward

1. Select the object whose layer order you want to change.
2. Click the Home tab.
3. Open the Arrange drop-down menu.
4. Click Send Backward.
5. Choose Send Backward, Send to Back, or Behind Text as needed.

Success Criteria

• The object moves to a lower display layer.