120 Chapter 4 Change the Look of Text
Although the left and right margins are set for a whole document or section, you can vary
the position of the paragraphs between the margins. The quickest way to indent a paragraph
from the left is to click the Increase Indent button; clicking the Decrease Indent button has
the opposite effect. You cannot increase or decrease the indent beyond the margins.
Another way to control the indentation of lines is by dragging markers on the horizontal
ruler to indicate where each line of text starts and ends.
● First Line Indent Begins a paragraph’s first line of text at this marker
● Hanging Indent Begins a paragraph’s second and subsequent lines of text at this
marker at the left end of the ruler
● Left Indent Indents the text to this marker
● Right Indent Wraps the text when it reaches this marker at the right end of the ruler
You display the ruler by clicking the Ruler check box in the Show group on the View tab,
or by clicking the View Ruler button located at the top of the vertical scroll bar.You can manually change a paragraph’s indentation by moving markers on the horizontal ruler.Setting a right indent indicates where the lines in a paragraph should end, but sometimes
you might want to specify where only one line should end. For example, you might want to
break a title after a particular word to make it look balanced on the page. You can end an
individual line by inserting a text wrapping break (more commonly known as a line break).
After positioning the cursor where you want the break to occur, you click the Breaks button
in the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab, and then click Text Wrapping. Word
indicates the line break with a bent arrow. Inserting a line break does not start a new
paragraph, so when you apply paragraph formatting to a line of text that ends with a
line break, the formatting is applied to the entire paragraph, not just that line.