Lost ability to indent paragraph using tab

[davezeb18]

Hi There. I'm using MS Word 2016 on Windows 10 and while I was typing a short while ago, I believe I hit a hotkey combo by mistake (and if I remember correctly, it had to do with indenting which would make some sense).

Up until that moment, whenever I desired to indent a paragraph, I had only to highlight it and hit tab, and the entire paragraph would then indent.

Now, when I highlight a paragraph and hit indent, I now see the paragraph being deleted.



This is a lovely feature I use often, and on my own it might take me some time to figure this out.

If anyone knows the issue here, I would very much appreciate your help.

Thanks, and have a great day!

[Charles Kenyon]

There is no "indent" key. There are Indent buttons on the Home Tab.
In the paragraph group there are increase indent and decrease indent buttons.

The Tab and Backspace keys can be used to increase and decrease indents if the proper option is set.

File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > AutoFormat as you type

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I have this unchecked. I prefer to do my formatting using Styles rather than direct formatting.

[davezeb18]

That did it! Perfect and Thank you so much for taking the time to answer this for me. I imagine on my own it would have been quite a haul to find that one box.

May you be most blessed and have a wonderful weekend!

Dave Z

[Charles Kenyon]

You are welcome.