Reply To: Super noob paragraph style question!

If you want spaces between paragraphs do NOT use a double return. Your teacher/lecturer is right. Instead, give paragraphs either a space before or a space after using the “Indents and Spacing” tab when defining a paragraph style.

The fact that paragraph styles are being applied to the whole contents of your text box suggests to me that you are not, in fact, using return to start a new paragraph but, rather, a soft return (achieved by holding down Shift as you hit Return. Everything either side of a soft return is still part of the same paragraph.