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Hanging Indents in MS Word

What if you want to create a hanging indent (in which the paragraph's first line is up against the left margin and all remaining lines in the paragraph are indented)?

Here are some suggestions:

Move your cursor to any point within the paragraph you want to indent, then choose one of these three options:

OPTION 1: USE THE MENU

Use the Format/Paragraph command. Select the Indents and Spacing tab, and in the Indentation section, select Hanging from the pull - down menu options for the Special field.

OPTION 2: KEYBOARD SHORTCUT

Press Ctrl + T to indent to the first tab setting (or one-half inch if no tabs have been set). Each time you press Ctrl + T, the hanging (indented) text will move to the next tab setting.

Gone too far? Press Ctrl + Shift + T to go in the opposite direction -- the indented text's left "margin" moves to the left.

OPTION 3: USE THE RULER BAR (my favorite)

Notice the bottom part of the ruler bar. It contains an up - pointing triangle, indicating the position of the hanging indent. In "regular" paragraphs (those with no indents), the up-pointing triangle will be positioned at the left margin. To manually change the amount of space preceding the hanging indent, drag this triangle icon to the right along the ruler bar.

For example, for a "regular" paragraph, drag the up-pointing triangle to the right and you'll see how the paragraph is immediately formatted with a hanging indent.

Note: It doesn't matter where your insertion bar is within the paragraph. In other words, it doesn't have to be at the beginning of the paragraph. As long it's somewhere inside the paragraph that you want to format, dragging the triangle will create the hanging indent for that paragraph.