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Turn off paragraph indenting
I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second
line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) |
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To set a hanging indent, you can press Ctrl+M. If you want more
control, choose Format | Paragraph. Click the Indents and Spacing tab. Under "Indentation," choose "Hanging" in the "Special" box, and specify the desired value. Note that you can create a style with this setting, if you need to apply it repeatedly within a document. For more on styles, see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sOnStyles.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) |
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What you want is called a "Hanging Indent" & isn't to be had by the Tab key.
It's a paragraph formatting attribute which can be applied in a few ways: 1- With your insertion point in the paragraph drag the *lower* triangle marker at the left end of the ruler bar to the spot you want to indent to. The first line will remain flush left but the rest of the lines will be indented, or 2- While in the paragraph go to FormatParagraph - Indents & Spacing, open the list labeled Special in the Indentation section, choose "Hanging" & specify a value to be applied. Both of the above are just different ways to do the same thing. Once applied the amount of indentation can be adjusted on the Ruler - you'll see the marker move even if you use the dialog box. The attribute can be included as a part of a Style if you are familiar with them (which is preferable) but if you are formatting directly it's better to *not* apply the changes to a paragraph until you're done. Otherwise those changes carry on to the next paragraph & you have to change the settings back again. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 1/19/07 6:25 AM, in article , "Gordon" wrote: I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) |
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"Gordon" wrote in message
... I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) If you haven't set up tab points when you press tab, text is tabbed to the next default tab point. It's far better to set up tabs manually. In that way you have far more control over what is happening to the presentation of you document. To set up a tab - highlight the text (or whole page) to be changed select the type of tab (usually left-hand) (extreme left-side of the ruler bar) select the position of the tab (ruler bar) Now for the indents. At the left hand side of the ruler bar there is a downwards point 'arrow' and an upwards pointing 'arrow' with a small square underneath. Dragging the small square along the ruler drags both arrow but each of them can be dragged independently. Drag these to the tab point and separate them slightly. You will see that they enable you to offset the following lines of a paragraph either to the left or right of the start point of the first line of the paragraph. I suggest you experiment to get it just right for you. You can have a number of tab points on a line so, in a simple example, you could have a list of several columns (left tabbed) with a final column with a price (decimal or centre tabbed). An alternative to this would be to use a table but that is possibly another subject for another day. I hope that is useful. Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions |
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"Gordon" wrote in message
... I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) Don't think I explained properly! I have a sentence such as below: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall What I want to do is this: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall If I place my Cursor just in front of the "then" in the second row and press Tab, I get this: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall I don't want the top row to move. There USED to be a way to turn off this totally unintuitive behaviour but I can't find it. |
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Correction: The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+T, not Ctrl+M (which sets a
left indent). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... To set a hanging indent, you can press Ctrl+M. If you want more control, choose Format | Paragraph. Click the Indents and Spacing tab. Under "Indentation," choose "Hanging" in the "Special" box, and specify the desired value. Note that you can create a style with this setting, if you need to apply it repeatedly within a document. For more on styles, see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sOnStyles.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) |
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Well, a hanging indent indents all lines but the first. If you are
saying that you want to indent *only* the second line (not the first, and not lines three, four, five, etc.), you can press Enter before and after line two to put it in a separate paragraph, and then apply a left indent. Alternatively, you can use an ADVANCE field at the beginning of the second line to push it to the right. For example: { ADVANCE \r 20 } moves that line 20 pt to the right. To insert the field, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown, and press F9 to update. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Gordon" wrote in message ... I have a sentence that wraps onto the next line. I want to indent the second line part. When I put my cursor before the word and press Tab, it indents the top line as well. How do I turn off this ridiculous default setting? I just want the indent to apply to the line I am on, not the paragraph.(Word 2003) Don't think I explained properly! I have a sentence such as below: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall What I want to do is this: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall If I place my Cursor just in front of the "then" in the second row and press Tab, I get this: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog who then got up and bit the cat that then jumped over the garden wall I don't want the top row to move. There USED to be a way to turn off this totally unintuitive behaviour but I can't find it. |
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
... Well, a hanging indent indents all lines but the first. If you are saying that you want to indent *only* the second line (not the first, and not lines three, four, five, etc.), you can press Enter before and after line two to put it in a separate paragraph, and then apply a left indent. Alternatively, you can use an ADVANCE field at the beginning of the second line to push it to the right. For example: { ADVANCE \r 20 } moves that line 20 pt to the right. To insert the field, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown, and press F9 to update. eeek! Thanks for that - but I think I've found it. In Tools-Autocorrect Options-"Autoformat as you Type". At the bottom, uncheck "set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces". That seems to have fixed it..... |
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"Gordon" wrote in message
... "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Well, a hanging indent indents all lines but the first. If you are saying that you want to indent *only* the second line (not the first, and not lines three, four, five, etc.), you can press Enter before and after line two to put it in a separate paragraph, and then apply a left indent. Alternatively, you can use an ADVANCE field at the beginning of the second line to push it to the right. For example: { ADVANCE \r 20 } moves that line 20 pt to the right. To insert the field, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown, and press F9 to update. eeek! Thanks for that - but I think I've found it. In Tools-Autocorrect Options-"Autoformat as you Type". At the bottom, uncheck "set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces". That seems to have fixed it..... Well, I'm glad you found a solution. (If you wanted to keep the "Set left- and first-indent..." option checked, you could have used Ctrl+Tab to insert the tabs.) But note that tab characters within a paragraph are part of the text flow. If you edit the text, they might move to a different line. Keeping the text in different paragraphs seems like the best long-term solution. Of course, this depends on what exactly you are trying to accomplish... -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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"Gordon" wrote in message
... "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Well, a hanging indent indents all lines but the first. If you are saying that you want to indent *only* the second line (not the first, and not lines three, four, five, etc.), you can press Enter before and after line two to put it in a separate paragraph, and then apply a left indent. Alternatively, you can use an ADVANCE field at the beginning of the second line to push it to the right. For example: { ADVANCE \r 20 } moves that line 20 pt to the right. To insert the field, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown, and press F9 to update. eeek! Thanks for that - but I think I've found it. In Tools-Autocorrect Options-"Autoformat as you Type". At the bottom, uncheck "set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces". That seems to have fixed it..... Just be aware of Autoanything. It can lull you into a false sense of security that everything is OK until one day you'll going wonder "Why the heck is it doing that?" I keep Autoanything OFF. I like to be master of my own document. Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions |
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Well once a user knows what the AutoXXX is doing for him/her, they can
actually be very useful. The problem is that most new users don't know about AutoAnything so when strange quirky things happen it leads to posts like this one. But once you have learnt about them and how to control them and put them to use, they are good for productivity. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message ... "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Well, a hanging indent indents all lines but the first. If you are saying that you want to indent *only* the second line (not the first, and not lines three, four, five, etc.), you can press Enter before and after line two to put it in a separate paragraph, and then apply a left indent. Alternatively, you can use an ADVANCE field at the beginning of the second line to push it to the right. For example: { ADVANCE \r 20 } moves that line 20 pt to the right. To insert the field, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown, and press F9 to update. eeek! Thanks for that - but I think I've found it. In Tools-Autocorrect Options-"Autoformat as you Type". At the bottom, uncheck "set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces". That seems to have fixed it..... Just be aware of Autoanything. It can lull you into a false sense of security that everything is OK until one day you'll going wonder "Why the heck is it doing that?" I keep Autoanything OFF. I like to be master of my own document. Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions |
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