I recently switched to MS Word from Wordperfect.

I frequently want to use the "hanging indent" format for a paragraph. Wordperfect has a very easy way to do this: you start a paragraph anywhere you want (at the left margin or indented any amount), and then, when you get to where you want all subsequent lines to be indented to, you press a different key (F7) instead of TAB, and it tabs over and then automatically sets the paragraph to be a hanging indent with the first line wherever you put it and all subsequent lines starting at the tab set you got to with F7.

Is there any comparably easy way to create hanging indent with MS Word? As far as I have been able to discover, to create a paragraph with hanging indent in Word, you have to choose Format -> Paragraph and then put in specific numbers for both the initial indent and the hanging indent. That's cumbersome, and on top of that, if you've already used TAB to get the initial indent, putting in the numbers can have the effect of moving stuff around in ways you didn't want.

So is there a comparably quick, easy, and visual way to do hanging indent in Word? (And by the way, setting up a style is not a solution, I don't think, because I don't always want the same amount of initial and hanging indent. It's frequently different from document to document.)



Thanks for any help.