Adding a Single Paragraph

Procedure

I started with a blank file:

../_images/0-blank1024.png

And added a single paragraph:

../_images/1-singlepara1024.png

Results

Document XML Changes

The blank word/document.xml file has, thankfully, a pretty minimal and manageable structure:

<w:body>
 <w:p w14:paraId="2755313D" w14:textId="77777777" w:rsidR="00617040" w:rsidRDefault="00617040">
  <w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/>
  <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
 </w:p>
 <w:sectPr w:rsidR="00617040" w:rsidSect="00E7316D">
  <w:pgSz w:h="15840" w:w="12240"/>
  <w:pgMar w:bottom="1440" w:footer="720" w:gutter="0" w:header="720" w:left="1440" w:right="1440" w:top="1440"/>
  <w:cols w:space="720"/>
  <w:docGrid w:linePitch="360"/>
 </w:sectPr>
</w:body>

With some paraphrasing and eliding, it’s more clear:

<body>
 <p>
  <bookmarkStart/>
  <bookmarkEnd/>
 </p>
 <sectionProperty>
  <pageSize/>
  <pageMargin/>
  <cols>
  <docGrid>
 </sectionProperty>
</body>

One paragraph, with some kind of bookmark, and some high-level page layout settings. Cool. Adding one paragraph to the blank produced this (including only the relevant part):

<w:p w14:paraId="2755313D" w14:textId="22B9D595" w:rsidR="00617040" w:rsidRDefault="009D3123">
 <w:r w:rsidRPr="009D3123">
  <w:t>
   How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore, and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
  </w:t>
 </w:r>
 <w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/>
 <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
</w:p>

As paraphrased:

<p>
 <r>
  <t>
    How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore,
    and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of
    a forgotten spot in the Caribbean,
    by providence impoverished in squalor,
    grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
  </t>
 </r>
 <bookmarkStart/>
 <bookmarkEnd/>
</p>

Now there’s a run and a text tag surrounding the text I entered. Nothing else get_changed.

Other Changes

In word/settings.xml there are two new <w:rsid> tags, inserted with the others alphabetically:

  • <w:rsid w:val="009D3123"/>
  • <w:rsid w:val="00FD3E79"/>

In docProps/app.xml a few counts were modified for the new content:

  • TotalTime from 0 to 1
  • Words from 0 to 29
  • Characters from 0 to 166
  • Lines from 0 to 1
  • Paragraphs from 0 to 1
  • CharacterWithSpaces from 0 to 194