Three ways to set paragraph indents in a Word2013 document

Method 1: Set paragraph indentation in the Paragraph dialog box

The user can set paragraph indents in the Word2013 Paragraph dialog box, as described in the following steps:

Step 1th, open the Word2013 document window and select the text paragraph that you want to set the paragraph indentation for. Click the Show Paragraph Dialog button in the Paragraph group in the start Ribbon, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Click the Show paragraph dialog box button

Step 2nd, in the Open Paragraph dialog box, switch to the Indent and Spacing tab, and in the indent area, adjust the left or right edit box to set the indent value. Then click the Special Format Drop-down triangle button, select the first line indent or hanging indent option in the Drop-down list, and set the indent value (typically setting the indent value to 2). Set Finish Click OK, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Selecting the first line indent option

Method 2: Set paragraph indentation in the page layout ribbon

In the page layout ribbon of the Word2013 document window, you can quickly set paragraph indentation values for the selected Word2013 document, as described in the following steps:

Step 1th, open the Word2013 document window and select the paragraph you want to indent.

Step 2nd, switch to the page layout ribbon in the Word2013 document window, and then adjust the left and right indent values in the paragraph group, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 Adjusting the indent value

Method 3: Use the ruler to set paragraph indents

With the rulers in the Word2013 document window, users can easily set the paragraph indent for Word documents, as described in the following steps:

Step 1th, open the Word2013 document window and switch to the view ribbon. Select the Ruler check box in the Show/Hide group, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Selecting the Ruler check box

2nd step, a four indent slider appears on the ruler, dragging the first Line indent slider to adjust the first line indent, dragging the Hanging indent slider to set the character of the hanging indent, dragging the left indent and right indent sliders to set up and left indents, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5 dragging the slider to set indents

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