How to Make Hanging Indentations
Hanging indentations alter the spacing of all but the first line in a sentence or paragraph. The first line is not indented, while all of the following lines are tabbed. If you need to add hanging indentation to your documents, you'll find support for the formatting in just about any of the popular word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer and AbiWord.
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Instructions
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Microsoft Word
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Launch Microsoft Word. Click on the "Office" button, and then select the "Open" option from the Office menu to load a document into the program.
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Highlight the text you wish to indent. Hold down your mouse's left button, while dragging the cursor over the desired text.
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Click on the slider in Word's ruler. Drag the slider to the right to set your text's hanging indentation. Click the "Save" button in Word's toolbar to save your work.
OpenOffice.org Writer
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Launch Open Office Writer. Click on the program's "Open" button to browse for the document you'd like to edit.
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Highlight the sentence or paragraph you'd like to indent by holding down the left button on your mouse while dragging the cursor across the text. Select the "Styles & Formatting" option from the Format heading.
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Double-click on the "Hanging Indent" option in the Styles & Formatting menu to indent the selected text, then close the menu. Click on the "Save" button in the toolbar to save your changes.
AbiWord
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Start AbiWord. Click on the "Open" icon in the program's toolbar to browse for the document you'd like to work with.
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Select the text you'd like to indent. Drag your cursor over the desired text while holding down the left button on your mouse. Right-click on the selected text, then select the "Paragraph" option from the context menu that appears.
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Click on the "Special" menu box under the Paragraph menu's Indents and Spacing tab. Select the "Hanging" option from the menu box, then click "OK." Click the "Save" icon in AbiWord's toolbar to save your work.
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