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I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this:
Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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In Word it's called a hanging indent. You set it from Format |
Paragraph | Indents and Spacing tab | Special: Hanging. Leslianne wrote: I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this: Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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You can also create a hanging indent by dragging the Hanging Indent marker
on the horizontal ruler (see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm). In this case, that would be the way to go because you can see when you have the indent at the right place to clear your heading. OTOH, if you have several headings of varying length, you'll want the indents to be uniform. You can either use an indent wide enough to clear the longest one, or you can use a minimal indent that will run under all the headings. To easily create a hanging indent to the first tab stop (0.5" unless you have custom tab stops set), press Ctrl+T. Each time you press Ctrl+T, the indent increases by another half inch. Ctrl+Shift+T reverses the process. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... In Word it's called a hanging indent. You set it from Format | Paragraph | Indents and Spacing tab | Special: Hanging. Leslianne wrote: I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this: Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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I just tried to do what you said. If you just do a Hanging indent, the second line of the test indents 1/2 inch under the first, looking like this:
xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssss I want the text to look like this: xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss When I specfied an amount (first at .5 then at 1.0) for the hanging indent, everything on the first line moved over so that the text looked like this: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx When I just drag the hanging indent marker, the whole line jumps again. Now what? LB "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also create a hanging indent by dragging the Hanging Indent marker on the horizontal ruler (see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm). In this case, that would be the way to go because you can see when you have the indent at the right place to clear your heading. OTOH, if you have several headings of varying length, you'll want the indents to be uniform. You can either use an indent wide enough to clear the longest one, or you can use a minimal indent that will run under all the headings. To easily create a hanging indent to the first tab stop (0.5" unless you have custom tab stops set), press Ctrl+T. Each time you press Ctrl+T, the indent increases by another half inch. Ctrl+Shift+T reverses the process. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... In Word it's called a hanging indent. You set it from Format | Paragraph | Indents and Spacing tab | Special: Hanging. Leslianne wrote: I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this: Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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Hi, Leslianne. I suggested that you use the menu commands to set the
indent, instead of someone else's suggestion to use the ruler bar, because I figured you would end up with what you've got now if you tried to use the ruler bar. Okay, let's fix this. Double-click on the indented paragraph to select it. Look at the horizontal ruler about 1.5" or 2" down from the top of your screen. The top half of the ruler has a downward-pointing gray triangle, and the bottom half of the ruler bar has an upward-pointing gray triangle sitting on a gray square. 1. Drag the top triangle back to the left margin. 2. Drag the bottom triangle to the place where you want the hanging indent to be. Make sure your cursor is on the upward-pointing triangle when you drag. Don't drag the square (but the square will move with the upward-pointing triangle). 3. In the white space on the bottom half of the ruler bar (just below the ruler marks), left click once where you want the first-line tab to be. The tab mark will appear as a black L on the ruler bar. If you don't get the tab exactly where you want it at first, it's okay, you can drag the tab mark around just like the triangles. 4. If you did what I'm thinking, the ruler bar should show the downward-pointing triangle at the left margin, a black tab mark some distance to the right of the left margin, and the upward-pointing-triangle-sitting-on-square some distance to the right of the tab mark. 5. In your example text below, you would type the x's, then hit the tab key, then start typing s's. Does it look okay now? Leslianne wrote: I just tried to do what you said. If you just do a Hanging indent, the second line of the test indents 1/2 inch under the first, looking like this: xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssss I want the text to look like this: xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss When I specfied an amount (first at .5 then at 1.0) for the hanging indent, everything on the first line moved over so that the text looked like this: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx When I just drag the hanging indent marker, the whole line jumps again. Now what? LB "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also create a hanging indent by dragging the Hanging Indent marker on the horizontal ruler (see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm). In this case, that would be the way to go because you can see when you have the indent at the right place to clear your heading. OTOH, if you have several headings of varying length, you'll want the indents to be uniform. You can either use an indent wide enough to clear the longest one, or you can use a minimal indent that will run under all the headings. To easily create a hanging indent to the first tab stop (0.5" unless you have custom tab stops set), press Ctrl+T. Each time you press Ctrl+T, the indent increases by another half inch. Ctrl+Shift+T reverses the process. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... In Word it's called a hanging indent. You set it from Format | Paragraph | Indents and Spacing tab | Special: Hanging. Leslianne wrote: I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this: Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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Hi, Leslianne,
If you want a graphic illustration of what g-n-o is describing, you can look at the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Hi, Leslianne. I suggested that you use the menu commands to set the indent, instead of someone else's suggestion to use the ruler bar, because I figured you would end up with what you've got now if you tried to use the ruler bar. Okay, let's fix this. Double-click on the indented paragraph to select it. Look at the horizontal ruler about 1.5" or 2" down from the top of your screen. The top half of the ruler has a downward-pointing gray triangle, and the bottom half of the ruler bar has an upward-pointing gray triangle sitting on a gray square. 1. Drag the top triangle back to the left margin. 2. Drag the bottom triangle to the place where you want the hanging indent to be. Make sure your cursor is on the upward-pointing triangle when you drag. Don't drag the square (but the square will move with the upward-pointing triangle). 3. In the white space on the bottom half of the ruler bar (just below the ruler marks), left click once where you want the first-line tab to be. The tab mark will appear as a black L on the ruler bar. If you don't get the tab exactly where you want it at first, it's okay, you can drag the tab mark around just like the triangles. 4. If you did what I'm thinking, the ruler bar should show the downward-pointing triangle at the left margin, a black tab mark some distance to the right of the left margin, and the upward-pointing-triangle-sitting-on-square some distance to the right of the tab mark. 5. In your example text below, you would type the x's, then hit the tab key, then start typing s's. Does it look okay now? Leslianne wrote: I just tried to do what you said. If you just do a Hanging indent, the second line of the test indents 1/2 inch under the first, looking like this: xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssss I want the text to look like this: xxxxxxxxxx ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss When I specfied an amount (first at .5 then at 1.0) for the hanging indent, everything on the first line moved over so that the text looked like this: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx When I just drag the hanging indent marker, the whole line jumps again. Now what? LB "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also create a hanging indent by dragging the Hanging Indent marker on the horizontal ruler (see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm). In this case, that would be the way to go because you can see when you have the indent at the right place to clear your heading. OTOH, if you have several headings of varying length, you'll want the indents to be uniform. You can either use an indent wide enough to clear the longest one, or you can use a minimal indent that will run under all the headings. To easily create a hanging indent to the first tab stop (0.5" unless you have custom tab stops set), press Ctrl+T. Each time you press Ctrl+T, the indent increases by another half inch. Ctrl+Shift+T reverses the process. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... In Word it's called a hanging indent. You set it from Format | Paragraph | Indents and Spacing tab | Special: Hanging. Leslianne wrote: I'm trying to type a document that contains material that looks like this: Leader: Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat Now repeat after me. Now repeat after me. Now repeat . I have no idea what to call this. On the first line there is a header for the content to follow and the content is indented. In WordPerfect I can just press F7 and the second part of the material automatically indents. In Word the entire line moves! (YAUZA!) Can I do this without having to resort to inserting colums in the middle of the document? Thanks! |
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