Indents

Quick reference

• 00:04 This lesson is all about indents and how to control them for
• 00:07 each paragraph that you want to design.
• 00:09 So on the Home ribbon there are two buttons in the Paragraph section.
• 00:14 One says, Decrease Indent, and the next says, Increase Indent on the tooltip.
• 00:19 Let's make sure your ruler is on.
• 00:20 Click on the View ribbon itself.
• 00:23 And then right under that, there's a ruler,
• 00:25 I need to have a check mark right here on the ruler.
• 00:27 Then your ruler is visible above your document.
• 00:30 Notice on the left hand side of the ruler, this tool sort of looks
• 00:34 like an hourglass to me, but it's not it's actually three tools.
• 00:38 When I flew my mouse on the top one, tooltip says First Line Indent.
• 00:42 When I flip my mouse on the very tip of the second, tooltip says, Hanging Indent,
• 00:47 and then on the bottom, Left Indent.
• 00:49 Now I want to draw your attention to the right-hand side of the ruler.
• 00:52 There's another tool over here, right indent.
• 00:56 So let's not forget that one's over there.
• 00:57 All right, let's get started.
• 00:58 My insertion point is on this first paragraph.
• 01:01 And we're simply going to tab this.
• 01:03 I'm going to tap my Tab on my keyboard, but
• 01:06 I want you to watch that ruler when I hit that.
• 01:08 Here we go.
• 01:10 Notice, the very top part of that tool moved over,
• 01:13 First Line Indent, but this is the remaining, the Left Indent.
• 01:17 So the paragraph will be flush left, but the first line is indented.
• 01:22 On the right hand side, we're going to leave that right where it is.
• 01:25 Let's go ahead and go to the next one.
• 01:27 The left indent, we can actually push this over,
• 01:31 and this time we're going to use the buttons on the Home ribbon.
• 01:35 So going back to the Home ribbon, to the Paragraph Group, we have a Decrease and
• 01:39 an Increase indent.
• 01:40 I'll go ahead and click increase and wash the entire left side of
• 01:44 that paragraph moved together, not just the first line.
• 01:47 The entire tool moved over on the ruler.
• 01:51 I'll go ahead and hit it again, Increase.
• 01:54 Maybe I want to pull it back, Decrease, Decrease, or increase.
• 01:58 Now could I come down here, float my mouse on the bottom,
• 02:02 and just drag this around where I want it?
• 02:04 Absolutely, but sometimes that's a little harder than just hitting the buttons.
• 02:11 These go in half inch increments,
• 02:12 this lets you control how far it goes on the ruler.
• 02:14 Let's do a hanging indent.
• 02:16 The top line will be hanging on the left edge and
• 02:19 the rest of the paragraph will indent.
• 02:21 So there's two ways to do it.
• 02:23 I can increase the indent, float my mouse on the ruler,
• 02:27 the very top part where it says First Line Indent and pull this back.
• 02:31 That is a hanging indent.
• 02:32 Now let's have this happen automatically.
• 02:35 I'm going to select these three items 1, 2, and 3, and
• 02:38 I'm going to apply numbering.
• 02:40 Watch the ruler when I hit this.
• 02:42 Ready, click.
• 02:43 Check that out, you see numbering is by default a hanging indent.
• 02:48 But what if you're looking at the same, well not 1, 2, 3?
• 02:51 They're about a quarter inch away I really want that one two and three closer.
• 02:55 Again, all three of those items are still selected floating my mouse up
• 02:59 to the ruler Clicking on the first line indent and just dragging it over.
• 03:03 See, I get to control how close my bullets and my numbering line up to my line items.
• 03:09 Okay, the final one is the double indent.
• 03:11 A double indent traditionally is when we're quoting an author,
• 03:14 quoting someone in an article.
• 03:16 So you would put a double quotation mark at the beginning and
• 03:19 a double quotation mark at the end.
• 03:21 And then of course we would double spacing with a Ctrl+2.
• 03:25 So let's go ahead and click on the Paragraph.
• 03:27 And traditionally, this is a one inch full indent on both sides.
• 03:30 It's going to look extreme but it is correct.
• 03:34 Coming up to my tools Increase Indent twice, and
• 03:36 it follows the path of my previous indent.
• 03:39 And now on this side, my right indent is at six and a quarter.
• 03:42 So I will literally click and drag and pull this back to five and a quarter.
• 03:47 That looks like an extreme indent, but it is correct.
• 03:50 So now I want to double space this and the trick to that is press Ctrl+2 on your
• 03:54 keyboard, Ctrl+2, and there we have double spaced.
• 03:58 So at any time if you change your mind, you can click into any of these
• 04:02 paragraphs, move the tools around on the ruler or just use the buttons up on top

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