Instead of trying to coerce the 'increase indent' function to do what you want - which it won't - you should define and use an appropriate set of paragraph Styles with the formatting you require. See: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...7-1eb120dec563, https://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/stylesms.html, & http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]