Additional Resources
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Microsoft Word 2007 - Paragraphs
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Learn how
Microsoft Word 2007 paragraphs work. Also,
learn how to change the indent, line spacing and case of your text.
Using Indent Buttons
An indent is the blank space left between the
margin and the beginning of a line or row of text, NOT the left
side of the page and the text.
Word 2007 offers a handful of
different ways to change the indentation of paragraphs.
The fastest way to indent a paragraph is to use the Increase Indent
and Decrease Indent buttons on the
Home Ribbon tab to move the paragraph away from or toward to, the left margin.
To
increase or decrease the indent of a paragraph, follow these
steps:
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Click
in the paragraph whose indentation you want to change. If
you want to change more than one paragraph, select them. |
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Click
one of Indent buttons as many times as necessary to indent
the text: |
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Increase Indent button: Indents the paragraph from the left margin by one tab
stop.
Increase Indent button
OR
Press CTRL + M |
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Decrease Indent button: Moves the paragraph back toward the left margin by one tab
stop.
Decrease Indent button
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Press CTRL + SHIFT + M. |
You can also change the indentations by using the
ruler to eyeball it.
This technique requires some dexterity
with the mouse, but it allows you to see precisely where
paragraphs and the first lines of paragraphs are indented.
To indent paragraphs by using the ruler, follow these steps:
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If your ruler doesn't show, click the View Ribbon tab ► Ruler, if necessary, to put the ruler
on-screen. |
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Select the paragraph or paragraphs whose indentation you
want to change. |
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Click-and-drag along the ruler, any of the following indent markers with
the mouse: |
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First-Line Indent Marker: Drag the down-pointing arrow on the ruler to indent the
first line of the paragraph only. |
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Left Indent Marker: This one comes in two
parts: A top triangle-marker (first-line indent marker)
A bottom triangle-marker (hanging indent marker) A
square-marker (left indent marker)
Drag the arrow that points up (called the
hanging indent marker), but not the box
underneath it, to move the left margin independently of
the first-line indentation. To move the left indentation
and the first-line indentation relative to the left
margin, slide the box.
Doing so moves everything on
the left side of the ruler. |
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Right
Indent Marker: Drag this one to move the right side of the paragraph away
from the right margin. |
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If you find it
difficult to get hold of the correct indent marker
on the ruler, use the indent marker tabs on the
Tabs button to the left of the Horizontal ruler.
First Line Indent marker
Hanging Indent marker
Every time you click
on the Tab Stop button, it cycles through the
different tab stops, the last two of them are the
"First Line Indent" and "Hanging Indent" markers.
Get the correct marker and click on the ruler, it's
new position.
This way you can easily
choose the new position for the indent. |
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Microsoft Word 2007
TOPICS
- On-screen elements
- Save a file
- Open a file
- Rename a file
- Delete a file
- Select
- Undo/Redo
- Deleting
- Copy
- Move
- Format Painter
- Font Attributes
- Font Dialog Box
- Alignment
- Highlight text
- Character Spacing
- Indent
- Line Spacing
- Change Case
- Symbols
- Borders & Shading
- Download Borders
- Page Break
- Section Break
- Header
- Footer
- Page Number
- Margins
- Landscape/Portrait
- Vertical Alignment
- Paper Size
- Print
- Print Preview
- Thesaurus
- Spelling & Grammar
- AutoCorrect
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