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Look up "hanging indent" in Help. That's the name of the feature you want.
One way: Type your numbers and para, select the para, hover over the three-piece hourglass on the ruler until the screen tip tells you that you are on the "hanging indent", drag it to the place you want the text indented to. This is nearly impossible to describe online--Help has illustrations so go there first if you do not understand. Then click on the ruler to set a tab where you want the "a", and it will leap back--what happened here is that setting the hanging indent has wiped out the default tab stops so you have to replace it. Using the Format | Tabs dialog may be easier for you, see this link on that: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm See also, for general purposes: How Word differs from WordPerfect http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm Some Tips and "Gotchas" for those who are new to Word Especially if migrating from WordPerfect http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm Is There Life After "Reveal Codes"? http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect) http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm On 2/4/05 11:03 AM, " wrote: 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. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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