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Right side indent
I'm using lengthy quotes which must be separated from
the main text and indented on both sides. Since the document is formatted, do I have to change the margins for every paragraph or is there an easier way? Thank you. |
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G'day "Jann" ,
Create a style with indents on both left and right - I think Word's Block Text style defaults to this... Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Jann reckoned: I'm using lengthy quotes which must be separated from the main text and indented on both sides. Since the document is formatted, do I have to change the margins for every paragraph or is there an easier way? Thank you. |
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In Word you don't change the margins (which are a section property) but the
indents, which are a paragraph property. As Steve points out, the Block Text style already has left and right indents, though you may want to change them since 1" is (IMO) excessive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jann" wrote in message ... I'm using lengthy quotes which must be separated from the main text and indented on both sides. Since the document is formatted, do I have to change the margins for every paragraph or is there an easier way? Thank you. |
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G'day "Suzanne S. Barnhill" ,
Yar, I think 0.5" looks much nicer myself :-) Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Suzanne S. Barnhill reckoned: In Word you don't change the margins (which are a section property) but the indents, which are a paragraph property. As Steve points out, the Block Text style already has left and right indents, though you may want to change them since 1" is (IMO) excessive. |
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I believe 1 inch was required of me. The tricky part of my BlockQuotation
style was figuring out how much space before and space after to get equal spacing when I double-spaced the whole doc. Daiya Yar, I think 0.5" looks much nicer myself :-) Steve Hudson - Word Heretic In Word you don't change the margins (which are a section property) but the indents, which are a paragraph property. As Steve points out, the Block Text style already has left and right indents, though you may want to change them since 1" is (IMO) excessive. |
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For Letter-sized pages, 0.5" is probably okay (and IIRC was what was
prescribed in most style manuals), but for books I rarely use more than 0.25" (same as my first-line indent). I sometimes also reduce the font size by a point or two for block quotes as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . I believe 1 inch was required of me. The tricky part of my BlockQuotation style was figuring out how much space before and space after to get equal spacing when I double-spaced the whole doc. Daiya Yar, I think 0.5" looks much nicer myself :-) Steve Hudson - Word Heretic In Word you don't change the margins (which are a section property) but the indents, which are a paragraph property. As Steve points out, the Block Text style already has left and right indents, though you may want to change them since 1" is (IMO) excessive. |
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