Well, Charles,
This was how I was taught to do it:
When I'm in the document and select the entire thing, then type "paragraph" in the box where it asks what you want to do, "Paragraph Settings" comes up.
I fill in all the boxes teling it I want it to do.
Under General:
Alignmen:t Left
Outline level: Body Text
INDENTATION:
Under "special" I choose First Line
By: 0.2"
Under Spacing:
Before: 6 pts
After: 6 pt
Line Spacing: Single
Maybe that's considered incorrect, but normally it works quite well.
However, the document I'm bring in that was in Word 2003 won't let me change it.
(and this is the formatting requested by Kindle Direct Publishing (Amazon KD)