In an upcoming column I’ll explain how to do TAB settings for Right Alignment, Centered Alignment and Decimal Alignment. Half-inch indents are traditional, but you can have the markers point to any measurement you prefer. You can create a “Hanging Indentation,” (aka an “Undent”) wherein the first line of a paragraph remains in place while the rest of the paragraph is indented to the right by whatever measurement you set on the ruler. In the Paragraph settings window, click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
In the Word toolbar, click the arrow to open the Paragraph settings window. This will cause the entire paragraph to be indented to the right. Click inside the line that contains the wrongly-spaced text. If you drag the bottom marker to the right, the top marker will move with it. Press Ctrl + H to get the 'Find and Replace. Select one or several columns with the data to delete spaces between words. Leading and trailing spaces will also be trimmed to 1, but will not be removed.
This option needs fewer steps, but allows only deleting excess spaces between words. If you go on to create additional paragraphs by pressing ENTER, each subsequent one will be likewise automatically indented. Using Find & Replace to remove extra spaces between words. This will cause the first line to be indented accordingly. With a selected paragraph, you can drag the top (inverted pyramid) marker a half-inch to the right. These markers can be dragged to the right to cause different things to happen within a paragraph. Near the left end of the ruler you will see two tiny pyramid-shaped markers, with one of them inverted on top of the other. Well, the “Tab Markers” on Word’s horizontal ruler can be adjusted to make pressing the TAB key unnecessary. Traditionally, this has been done by pressing the keyboard’s TAB key at the beginning of each paragraph. To make the settings match older Word versions, do this: Under “Home” click on “View>Change Styles.” Next click on “Style Set>Word 2003.” Then click “Change Styles” again.įinally, click “Set as Default.” Now your current and all future Word documents will have traditional line spacing and will again require you to press ENTER twice to put a blank line between paragraphs.Ī lot of Microsoft Word users like to begin each new paragraph with a half-inch indentation. However, this just fixes the current document.