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Now, if you want to edit a citation, the hanging indent stays in place. Slide the “Hanging Indent” marker over to the.5 position. Adding Running Head and Page Numbers in APA Format in Word 2010 (Windows). How to insert tabs and indents in Microsoft Word for Mac. This type of indent is most often used in bibliographies and reference pages. A hanging indent indents the second line of a paragraph instead of the first.

You can do this by double-clicking the file on your computer. (Items are measured here in inches, not in points.). Type another value if you want your indents to be more or less outrageous. Unless you’ve messed with the settings, the box should automatically say 0.5”, which means that Word automatically indents the first line of every paragraph a half inch - one tab stop. Left indent: All lines of the paragraph are indented in relation to the left. Hanging indent: Every line of the paragraph except the first one is indented. First-line indent: Only the first line of the paragraph is indented. Here are the possible types of indents in Word. The code that automatically performs a first line indent to the tab level of the preceding heading is the original Sub from the first example: Option Explicitĭim firstIndent As Double 'value in "points"įirstIndent = myDoc.Styles(para.Style).ParagraphFormat.LeftIndentĭebug.Print para.Style & " first tab stop at " & _ĭebug.Some people call these “outdents,” but that’s just a made-up word. Using the left indent, you can increase the left indentation value and move the paragraph lines to the right and by moving the First Line Indent, you can align the first line of the paragraph to the left margin. UPDATE2: the sample text original I used in shown in this first document: The ruler has two adjustable components i.e. The code update below accurately determines each Heading indent tab stop. UPDATE1: the earlier version of the code below set the paragraphs to the Document level first tab stop, and did not accurately grab the tabstop set for the Heading styles.

If so, then pick off the value of the first tab stop to set as the indent for the subsequent paragraphs. To use a macro to accomplish this, you have to check each paragraph in your document and check to see if it is a "Header" style.
