Hanging indents are a popular formatting requirement in some circles, such as when citing your sources in a bibliography or making notes in legal work. If you’re working on a research project in Google Docs, it’s important to know how to create hanging indents whenever you want.
Let’s walk through the basics of how to do this in Docs, so you’ll be ready whenever a formatting request arises.
How to create a hanging indent in Google Docs
Step 1: Enter Google Docs to get started. You can access the documents in several ways, but the easiest way is to use the web application. Log in if necessary and find the document you want to apply hanging indents to.
Go to the left part of the document and place the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph you want to indent.
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Step 2: Navigate to the Google Docs menu at the top and click on Format Drop Down Menu.
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Step 3: U Format menu, go to Align and retract. When this menu opens, select Retractable options.
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Step 4: Retractable options a new window will open where you can customize the indent. Go to Special indentation section, which should currently say No.
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Step 5: Select menu and select Hanging.
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Step 6: You will now see a number on the right, noting how long the hanging indent will be. It should be set to the traditional 0.5 inches, but you can adjust that if you want.
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Step 7: When done, select apply. The paragraph you were on should now have a hanging indent.
Step 8: If you have multiple paragraphs or sections to indent at once, that’s no problem. Just tick them all before using the steps above. Then the hanging indent will automatically be applied to the entire selected section.
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