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Indenting a paragraph
Indent is the position of text relative to the document margins. You can see indentation markers on the ruler.
Nick chooses to use a first line indent for the article.
- First Line Indent sets the left position of the first line of a paragraph.
- Left Indent sets the left position of all subsequent word wrapped lines.
- Right Indent sets the rightmost position for each line of a paragraph.
- Hanging Indent is when the first line of the paragraph is pushed more to the left than the rest of the paragraph.
To set the first line indent, follow these steps:
- Place the cursor in the paragraph you wish to modify.
- Select Format > Paragraph from the menu bar.
- A window will appear with options for modifying spacing and indenting.
- Here, you can choose to make the text in your document single or double spaced, as well as edit the margins for the document.
Activity: Change the spacing of the text in the article to double spacing.
In this dialog box, you can also change the indent of the paragraphs. If you apply a specific indent to a paragraph, all the subsequent paragraphs will have the same style unless you specify a set of different values for them.
