How to indent paragraphs in a Word document—the right way Your email has been sent Spaces and tabs might be the quickest way to indent a paragraph in Word, but you might be sorry. Instead, use ...

Ron Hubbard wrote that his Microsoft Word documents somehow changed their formatting to where each paragraph’s first line begins five spaces to the left of the rest of the paragraph. This is called a ...

Rose DeSalvo wrote that she has a Microsoft Word document withvarying paragraph indentations, including some “hanging” indents,and asked how to adjust them to her own specifications. Indents can be ...

Hanging indents (a.k.a. second line indents) are used across several widely-accepted literary styles — such as Chicago, MLA, and more — and are most commonly used for bibliography citations. That said ...