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Indenting Text and Graphics
If you want a certain portion
of text or a picture to stand out from the rest of your document you could
indent
it.
Text can be indented from either the left margin or the right margin or
both at once. There are two icons
for simple indenting,
increases the amount of indentation. If you want more control over the indentation and if you want
to create a hanging indent or indent from both margins you will need to use the Format
drop-down menu and choose Paragraph.
This window above shows the settings for a paragraph that
is indented from both margins by 2 cm and there is an additional hanging indent
of 1.3 cm. The paragraph has also
been justified. The diagram at the
bottom of the window gives you a preview of how the text will look, here is a
piece of text making use of hanging
indents:
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1. |
The first rule when you arrive is to check the opening times and costs. Failure to pay the correct charges or incorrect assumptions about whether charges exist could cost you dear! |
The first line of the paragraph after the number 1 is
positioned with a tab stop, the hanging indent is then lined up with this tab
stop. If you do not format a
paragraph like this using hanging indents you will have to press Enter at the
end of each line and this will prevent you justifying the paragraph and will
lose the benefits of word wrap. You
can also hold down CTRL + M together to indent your text and CTRL
+ T together to create a hanging indent. CTRL + SHIFT + M held together will
decrease an indent and CTRL + SHIFT + T held together
will decrease a hanging indent.
If a picture is in the middle of a sentence then it will
be moved with the text as you indent it. Pictures
that are on a line by themselves can be indented by using the increase and
decrease indent icons.
When an indent has been set you can adjust it using the sliders on the ruler but take care doing this as you may move the wrong text if your cursor is not in the correct paragraph at the time.
It is a good idea to use the paragraph formatting window to set and adjust your indents as you can see the exact values being used and can check they are equal but the keyboard combinations provide a good, quick way of indenting using the pre-set tab stops.
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