Indents

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello in this lesson, you're going to learn about indents and
• 00:08 how to control the indents.
• 00:10 Let's make sure your ruler's on your screen.
• 00:12 Please click on.
• 00:13 On the View ribbon, confirm there is a check mark on Ruler.
• 00:16 And you can visibly see the ruler at the top and the left side of your document.
• 00:20 All right, let's go ahead and point out the Indent buttons.
• 00:24 Let's go back to the Home ribbon there's two buttons right here.
• 00:28 One says decrease, one say increase.
• 00:30 If you can't remember which one just pause and
• 00:33 let the mouse tell you which one you're on.
• 00:34 All right, we're gonna start with the first line indent.
• 00:36 A couple of things are gonna happen.
• 00:38 When we insert and hit the Tab on our keyboard, you're actually going
• 00:43 to see this item right here on your ruler adjust itself, okay?
• 00:47 So I'm gonna press Tab in front of this paragraph and
• 00:50 this is called the first line indent.
• 00:52 As you can see what look like an hourglass is now split apart.
• 00:55 When I float my mouse into this Tab arrow, it actually shows me First Line Indent,
• 01:00 that's what it says it is.
• 01:01 Now the bottom one says left indent and even though it looks like there's two
• 01:06 little pieces there, just one little piece.
• 01:08 And it says left indent when I put the point of my mouse there.
• 01:11 All right, so that basically is first line indent.
• 01:13 Now, let's go ahead and use the left indent.
• 01:16 By the way, that first line indent went by default, just half an inch.
• 01:20 It's just how it's programmed to do that.
• 01:22 All right now, left indent technically means the entire paragraph
• 01:26 is going to move from the left margin, it's going to move in by half an inch.
• 01:31 So in this case, I am going to go ahead and hit my increase indent button.
• 01:35 I'll just click it once.
• 01:37 And you can visibly see that the entire paragraph moved, but
• 01:41 take a look at the roller, that moved as well.
• 01:44 I could have myself, floated my mouse right here, on the bottom arrow and
• 01:49 clicked and dragged the whole thing myself and placed it wherever I wanted to.
• 01:54 You have the control to do that.
• 01:55 That is why I'm making a big deal of the ruler and
• 01:59 these little items on the ruler here.
• 02:00 Okay, now these buttons up here to increase indent
• 02:04 will move you exactly a half an inch forward or backwards.
• 02:07 But, you can control it by clicking.
• 02:10 Those tools on the ruler itself, all right?
• 02:13 So that's your Left Indent.
• 02:15 Now a Hanging Indent, let's go ahead and select item one, two and three, and
• 02:19 we're gonna apply numbering to this.
• 02:21 Now watch the ruler, when I click, my ruler just split apart, okay?
• 02:27 When I float my mouse up here on the top it says First Line Indent, when I click in
• 02:30 hold you see the guideline on my screen go right beside the one, two, three.
• 02:35 And right over here, this is the left indent portion of the contents and
• 02:40 you can see the guideline on the screen now.
• 02:42 I can adjust this one and move it wherever I want, but when I adjust the top one,
• 02:46 that simply spreads the numbers of part and away from the list.
• 02:49 Okay?
• 02:50 So again you have full control If only
• 02:53 someone would have told you long ago that they'll just hit the numbers button.
• 02:58 Oops when I turned it off that whole thing turned off.
• 03:00 I have to highlight it all.
• 03:01 Hit the numbers button brings it all back together.
• 03:03 So that's the easy way to do numbers.
• 03:05 Turn them on, turn them off but
• 03:07 you can control the way of their placement by using These tools on the ruler.
• 03:12 All right, a hanging indent in a paragraph.
• 03:16 In this case, I'm going to go ahead and hit the increase indent by 1/2",
• 03:21 but now I'm going to click this top arrow first line indent.
• 03:24 And pull it back and that is technically a hanging indent,
• 03:27 which actually looks really cool on formal reports.
• 03:30 All right, the double indent.
• 03:31 Double indent simply means, it's going to be one full inch from the left edge,
• 03:36 one full inch from the right edge.
• 03:37 So that's easy to do with the left edge, two ways I can click and
• 03:41 drag it, one full inch, or I can hit my increase indent twice.
• 03:46 Now on the right edge, though, I want this to be on the 5 inch mark.
• 03:52 This little, this is your right indent button right over here.
• 03:56 So when I click and drag that,
• 03:57 I just pull that to the, I guess it technically would be the 5.25 inch mark.
• 04:02 Okay, and of course, if you're going to formally quote someone,
• 04:07 you're gonna double-space that paragraph and put quotation marks around it, right?
• 04:11 So Ctrl + 2 is the quick way going to double-space paragraph.
• 04:14 Okay, so there you go.
• 04:16 That's how you control and then apply indent, move them around, all right.
• 04:20 Thank you.

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