Adjust indents and spacing - Office Support.
Web pages do not use traditional paragraph spacing used by word processors or typesetting, which only indents first line of the paragraph. Even in WordPress, when you indent a paragraph the spacing is added to the entire paragraph. Some websites like news, magazine sites, or literary journals may want to add a more traditional paragraph spacing.
The practice of indenting the first line of a paragraph is a common style for fiction and academic papers. The opposite, outdenting, is common with bibliographical references and other citations. It's also the default setting for bulleted or numbered lists. Here's how to create a hanging indent correctly.
To use these buttons to indent paragraphs in Word, click into the paragraph for which you want to increase or decrease the indentation. Then click either the “Increase Indent” or “Decrease Indent” button, as desired. This increases or decreases the indentation of the entire left edge of the paragraph by half-inch increments each time you click the button. You can also indent paragraphs.
Additionally, we can also indent the entire paragraph with the Tab key. When we select an entire paragraph and type Tab, Word automatically indents the entire selection. We'll undo this indentation with Shift and Tab. We have now set tabs to a shorter distance, but this indentation is not consistent with the rest of the document, so we'll.
If you wanted to do the whole paragraph you can click anywhere in your first paragraph, and you can use these options here, 'increase', 'decrease'. We want to increase it, pushes it over to the right, not quite what we want. What we want to do is just do the first line, so cursor anywhere in your first paragraph, what we're going to do is, under that tab is-- no, actually we're looking for.
A paragraph can either start at the left margin, or can be indented any amount you specify. The whole paragraph can be indented, or you can indent just the first line. When only the first line is indented, you can set a first line indent. When you indent an entire paragraph, that is called a paragraph indent. Here are some examples: First Line Indent. This is the first line of a paragraph in a.
Choose Paragraph. from the shortcut menu to open the Paragraph dialog box. On the Indentation and Spacing tab, in the Line Spacing list box, choose one of the options: Single - Single-line spacing. (Line height automatically adjusts to accommodate the size of the font and any graphics or formulas in a line.) 1.5 Lines - Line-and-one-half spacing (an extra half-line of space between lines).