I used to be afraid to do hanging indents. (Silly, right?) But now I use them with confidence, and I’ve found they’re really handy. Click the link below to find out how I overcame my fear and the quick and easy way to fix hanging indents when they go wrong.
If you’ve ever wanted to center text on a point somewhere other than dead center between the page margins, you need to learn how to use Center tabs. Click through to the full article for a quick video showing you how to set one up.
Having trouble setting tabs in Microsoft Word? Here are two quick methods, plus a tip on how to set tabs for one section of your document without messing up the rest of your text.
You don’t need me to tell you what a paragraph is — it’s a block of text that ends with a “hard return” you insert by pressing the Enter key. In Microsoft Word, paragraph formatting covers such attributes as justification, indentation, line spacing, and what WordPerfect calls “block protect” (called something else by Word, but…
Ever wanted Microsoft Word to underline blank spaces … and it wouldn’t? Fixing that couldn’t be simpler. Click the “Read More” link to learn how.
If you’ve ever had to line up columnar data in Word along the right-hand edge of the column (rather than by the left-hand edge), you need to know how to use right tabs. Here are step-by-step instructions.
If you ever have columns of numbers (particularly currency figures) you need lined up in Word, you need to learn about decimal tabs. Here’s a quick video introduction to inserting and using them.
Whether you need to simply indent a paragraph a bit on the left, or need to create a double-indented quote or a hanging indent, the Format Paragraph function in Microsoft Word is what you’ll need.
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