How to do a hanging indent on microsoft word 2013

#How to do a hanging indent on microsoft word 2013 how to

Great way to split a long definition in small chunks.

This inserts a soft return in your paragraph and continues on the next lineвЂ™s indented margin.

If your definition is long, you may want to press Shift+Enter after a sentence.

If the defined term(s) is a bit lengthy (more than 1/2 inch), you may need to hit Ctrl+T more than once. Type a bit more content for the definition.

Now type the definition (2 or 3 lines) until the content wraps to the next line then press the shortcut Ctrl+T to indent the definition.

#How to do a hanging indent on microsoft word 2013 how to

We will learn how to deal with this situation in a minute. If the word you typed is four of five characters, it may seem that nothing happened. The insertion point moves to the next 0.5 inch mark in the ruler (depending on the length of the word).

Type a short defined term (about 6 or 7 characters) and hit the Tab key once.

Microsoft Word makes it incredibly easy to create hanging indents. This control is instrumental to creating cool hanging indents.

The marker labeled 3 indents the left margin of the selected paragraph and is named Left Indent.

The very first example at the top of this article is an example of that type of indentation.

The marker labeled 2 indents all lines except the first line and is called Hanging Indent.

You can drag it to the right or even to the left. In the past, it was popular to indent the first line but not the rest of the paragraph.

The marker labeled 1 controls the indentation of the first line of a paragraph only.

Let us briefly discuss a very important (and often misunderstood) set of markers in the ruler. However, doing this would require the definition to be further indented. Also, the defined term can be made of more than one word. The definition is usually more than one line of text. In this discussion we will refer to the term hanging as the defined term (above itвЂ™s Continual) and the discussion that follows as the definition. Now, this is a cool example of hanging indent! For example if you need to write a report for 5 categories of product, you could type the category name then increase the left margin of the content.

The term Continual appears to describe the content of the indented paragraph across. The example below is also a hanging indent but it looks much more attractive. Note that this MS Word shortcut increases the indentation by exactly 1/2 inch or roughly 13 millimetres. So Ctrl+T increases the indentation and Ctrl+Shift+T decreases the indentation. To decrease the indentation add the Shift key to the shortcut. You can press the shortcut more than once to add more indentation. To indent a paragraph as shown above, click anywhere in the paragraph (no need to make a selection) and hit Ctrl+T. Maybe legal firms use that style of paragraph formatting. But that does not mean itвЂ™s not used in some types of documents. Personally, I have never seen this format used in a document. Below is a typical hanging indent according to the literal definition above: An example of hanging indent found on the Internet Now there are two ways to understand this definition, letвЂ™s see two examples. The first line appears to be hanging in mid air, thus the name Hanging Indent. Most times the answer is negative!Д®ven worse, when I google Hanging Indent with Word, the examples they show are not very appealing! Okay, so what is a hanging indent? MicrosoftвЂ™s definition goes as follows: A hanging indent, also known as a second line indent, sets off the first line of a paragraph by positioning it on the left margin, and then indenting each subsequent line of the paragraph. When I teach Microsoft Word, I like to ask the participants if they know what a hanging indents is.