Left indent: Ctrl-m (to go back one tab position, press Shift-Ctrl-m).Press as often as you like to indent further These handy little quick keys take the indents to the default tab positions (half an inch or 1.27 cm) on the ruler line. Tip!If you want to indent more than one paragraph, select the paragraphs first. To create a right indent: drag the square on the right of the ruler line to where you want the indent to be.To create a hanging indent: drag the bottom triangle to where you want the rest of the paragraph to indent to.To create a first line indent: drag the top triangle to where you want the first line to be.To create a left indent: drag the bottom square to where you want the indent to be (all three markers move together).To adjust your indent for a paragraph, first place your cursor in the paragraph The right indent marker is just a little square on the right of the ruler line. At the left margin there are three markers, each controlling one of the three different types of left indent. The indent markers are powerful little tools on the ruler line. You can see the indent for any paragraph by placing the cursor in that paragraph and looking at the ruler line:

The ruler line displays your Indent markers.

You need to be in Print Layout (View, Print Layout) mode and you need to have the Ruler showing (View, Ruler)

HOW TO SEE WHAT INDENTS YOU HAVE IN A PARAGRAPH (I recommend that you change this setting). Indents in Word are NOT the same as tabs, although in recent versions of Word if you haven’t changed the default setting if you press the tab key at the beginning of a paragraph Word will take it that you want a first line indent. You can also indent the text of a paragraph from the right margin if you wish the paragraph to stand out from the rest, as in a quote. Indents are paragraph features that control how the text is aligned to the left and right margins. You can use indents in Word to make your documents look professional and easier to read.

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