Here is what I would like to do...



When I press the Increase Indent button, I would like the indent to move at .5" increments.

I then want to be able to use hanging indents for my paragraphs that are more than one line but only have the hanging part indent .2"

I do not want my hanging indents to line up with my .5" indent

The indent option under the paragraph setting seems to control both at same time, but to me they should be separate indent options.

Example

_____Pretend this sentence is indented .5" from the left as I continue my
_______sentence to the next line it has a hanging indent of .2"

__________I may then want to indent again at .5+.5=1" and again
____________as the sentence wraps to the next line it is again
____________only indented .2" from the original 1"

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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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you macropad for your reply. The first two links didn't seem to have what I was looking for and the last one would take me a week to comb through.

I just want to know how to have my paragraphs indent at .5" increments and as the texts wraps to the next line it has a hanging indent of .2".

If you want to use Word on a regular basis, you need an understanding of Styles. In particular, here, we are talking about paragraph styles.

That last article might take half a day to get through if your native language is English. If you use Word for more than 12 hours a week, though, you should recover that time in less than a month and from there on, you are ahead of the game. Here is an even shorter one, though. Using Styles to Format Text