Tabs and Indents

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Guest

How do I format a paragraph with some text that is "tabbed/indented" and some
that is not? The first few lines of the paragraph should be indented, but
the remaining lines are to align at the left margin.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You can have a first-line indent or a hanging indent; anything beyond that
will require (a) more than one paragraph or (b) line breaks and tabs.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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djprius

Faye said:
Thanks! How do I insert the line breaks?

Press Shift+Enter. If you have formatting marks showing you'll see a
graphic that looks like the graphic on the Enter key (at least on my
Dell Latitude); it's a left-pointing arrow with a up-jog on the right end.

David
 
G

Guest

When I enter the line breaks and try to insert a tab in the next line, all of
the text automatically shifts to the right -- which is not what I'm looking
for. In previous versions of Word, I was able to highlight only the portion
of a paragraph that I wanted to reformat. It looks like it is no longer
possible to do that. . . unless I'm missing something. I'm using Word 2007.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You need to disable the "Set left- and first-indent with tabs and
backspaces" option. I'm not sure exactly where this is found in Word 2007;
in Word 2003 it's on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools | AutoCorrect
Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Guest

YES! That does it!!! THANK YOU!!!!
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Faye


Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
You need to disable the "Set left- and first-indent with tabs and
backspaces" option. I'm not sure exactly where this is found in Word 2007;
in Word 2003 it's on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools | AutoCorrect
Options.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.
 
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Mahesh

Hi ,

I have some text in notepad , now i need to import only text , and how to
give equivalent for SHIFT+ENTER in word inside a notepad . Is it possible to
replace all by searching for a specific set of characters ...

Thanks,
Mahehs
 

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