Overview: Indenting paragraphs

You can indent text from the left margin, from the right margin, or from both margins. You can indent existing text or text you are about to type.

When indenting from the left margin, you can indent all lines of a paragraph, the first line only, or all lines except the first line (a hanging indent).

You can always remove indents from a paragraph.



Working with quoted text? Use indents to call attention to it

To display a paragraph that you are quoting, you can set both the left and right margin indent so that both sides of the paragraph are indented.



Getting organized with lists or bullets?

You can create a bulleted list or create a numbered list. It's as easy as a single click -- the bullets or numbers automatically appear before each paragraph you create. There's no need to worry about keeping track of the numbering order.



See also
Removing paragraph indents
Removing numbers or bullets
Setting a hanging indent