\documentclass{report}
\begin{LARGE}
Start of Text.\hspace{1cm}more text.\hspace{-1cm}over write.
This is a new paragraph.
A newline caracter does NOT change line.\\
But after a '$\backslash\backslash$', it does.
\newline
But it may giver you a 'there is no line here to end'...
This is ~ one tilde worth of horisontal space.
New paragraph.
\vspace{2cm}
Change par indent:
$\backslash$setlength\{$\backslash$parindent\}\{0cm\}
May be put in preamble.
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
\vspace{2cm}
New paragraph.
\vspace{-1cm}
After 1cm negative vertical space.
\vspace{1cm}
Let's try again.
Another paragraph.
On a newline
\vspace{-\baselineskip}
%%Color from the xcolor package.
\textcolor{red}{height of one line above}
\vspace{4\baselineskip}
Four lines down
\end{LARGE}