Short Return Usage with First Line Indentation

[Lee0879]

I really hope that someone can help me please.



I am currently formatting an e-book on Word 2010 and have been advised to use short return (shift + enter) rather than hard return (just enter) whenever I start a new paragraph.

However, when I do this I am unable to use first line indentation. Can anybody advise a way of getting around this please as both Amazon and Kobo insist on using soft return but don't explain how to indent the first line of a new paragraph.

I am struggling to find an answer on Google so if anybody can help me, I'd very much appreciate it

Thanks

[Charles Kenyon]

There is no automatic way to do this because Word does not see this as a new paragraph but merely a continuation line.
You will have to set a tab and manually indent.

You could wait until you are done with your project and replace line breaks with a line break followed by the tab character (^t) if you do not use a manual line break for anything else.

You could also record a macro and assign it to Ctrl+Shift+Enter to do a Manual line break followed by a Tab character. I would save the macro and keyboard shortcut in your document (which then will have to be a .docm). Once you are done, if you are sending it out, you can save it as .docx.

[Lee0879]

Hello Charles,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I'm not all that familiar with the inner workings of Word, so I'll work through your answer and see how I go.

Thanks again for responding; I very much appreciate it