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Can anyone answer my question?

This is a very, very simple, routine typing thing I'm trying to do. In
WordPerfect, you do it by pressing F7. That's it. In the typewriter
days, you did it by returning the carriage to the place where you
wanted the indent.

I appreciate your suggestions but you refer me to entire families of
web pages, containing thousands of words, which explain how to do all
kinds of things I'm not interested in. As can be seen from my query, I
don't want to create a standard number list. I don't want to create
"Styles" that will always apply -- in fact, just the opposite. I want
to be able to type a paragraph with two indents -- with only the text,
and not the headings themselves, being indented.

This is a simple question. Can anyone guide me, step by step, on how
to do this (and only this) one thing? (Sorry for sounding exasperated
but I've been reading those pages you referred me to.) Thanks.

Although the responses so far are very good (as you'll usually find on
this newsgroup) and will probably be very good reading material (when
you find the time!), I can understand your frustration at wanting to do
something very simple, but can't find out to do it.

Now, I have used the same kind of layout you're wanting to achieve, but
I've had to do some experimenting to try and find out how I originally
did it (they say the memory is the first thing to go...)

I've achieved exactly that layout by *explicitly* setting tabs, rather
than relying on the default tabs, so on the ruler there are the "L"
shapes showing where the tabs are. Then you type the "3.", then hit tab,
then type the "a.", then hit tab, then the "blah blah", then hit Ctrl-T
twice and the "blah blah" should line up as you want it.

Well, that's how it works here.
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Elizabeth