Microsoft Word

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Microsoft Word

• Margins, Indents, and Tabs
• By
• Theresa Lui
• Fall 2008

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MARGINS
1 inch top margin
Margins shown on ruler
1 inch left margin
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Margins

• Apply to each page in a document
• By default margins are
• Top and bottom 1 inch
• Left and right 1 inch

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Margins

• To change margins Click Page Layout tab click
  Margins and choose margin setting or
• Click Custom Margins to change settings

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Margins
Click Page Layout Tab
and Choose margin settings
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Custom Margins
Or choose Custom margins
Custom Margins
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Custom Margins
Or click on Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher
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Marginstab
Page Layout Tab
Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher
Apply to whole document
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Indents

• Apply to paragraphs
• Four types of indents
• First Line indent
• Hanging indent
• Left indent
• Right indent

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First Line Indent

• First line indent marker - top triangle

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First Line Indent

• First line indent marker - top triangle

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Move first line indent marker to half inch mark
on ruler
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Only first line indented--0.5 inch from margin
First line indent marker moved
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Hanging indent
Hanging indent marker - bottom triangle
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Hanging indent
Hanging indent marker moved 0.5
Indents second and subsequent lines in paragraph
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Left indent
Left indent marker at 1 inch from margin
All lines indented on the left 1 inch
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Right indent

• Indents whole paragraph on the right from the
  margin

Right indent marker
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Right indent
Right indent marker moved 1.5
Paragraph indented on right
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Another Way

• If you get confused with the indent markers on
  the ruler
• Click on the Paragraph group arrow

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Click First line indent or Hanging indent here
Left and right indents should be 0
0.5
Then this should be 0.5 inch.
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Tabs

• Tabs allow you to align text
• To the left
• To the center
• To the right
• To a decimal place

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TAB STOPS

• are positions on the horizontal ruler that
  indicate where the insertion point will be when
  you press the tab key.
• By default set every 0.5 inch on the ruler
  shown as tick marks

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Left tab on ruler
Click in ruler where you want text left aligned
when you press the Tab key
Custom tab stop
Tick marks to the left of custom tab stop are
gone.
Text jumps to 3.5 inch on ruler
Tab key pressed
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To change to a different tab click here
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To delete custom tab stops

• Click and drag into document

Custom left tab stop deleted.
Drag the custom tab stop into document to delete
it
The text lines up to half inch mark on the ruler
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Summary

• Margins apply to whole document
• Indents apply to paragraphs
• First line indent indents 1st line of each
  paragraph
• Hanging indent indents every line except first
  line of each paragraph
• Left indent indents the whole paragraph on the
  left
• Right indent indents the whole paragraph on the
  right
• Tabs align text when you press Tab key