Instructions apply to any surfing app using Google Docs.
What Is a Hanging Indent?
This makes the first line “hang” out over the second.
choose the text that you want to have the hanging indent.
This can be a sentence, a paragraph, multiple paragraphs, etc.
In theSpecial Indentsection, hit the drop down and then clickHanging.
Use the box to define the amount of the indent in inches.
ClickApplyto get the hanging ident with your preferred setting.
you’ve got the option to also create a hanging indent in Google Docs using a keyboard combination.
To do that, insert your cursor where you want to create the hanging indent.
PressReturn + Shiftat the same time to create a line break (this will be invisible).
Then click theTabkey to ident the line.
This is a useful option if you’re indenting the second line of a two-line section.
For anything more than that, this is much more work than either of the other options.
Turn on the ruler, if it’s not already showing (View>Show ruler).
Highlight the text that you want to add the hanging indent to.
This could be a sentence, paragraph, or the whole document.
In the ruler, click and drag the left-indent control (it looks like a blue triangle).
Drag this to where you want the hanging ident to be.
verify you don’t accidentally grab themargin controlinstead.
Click and drag the right-indent control (the blue bar just above the blue triangle in the ruler).
Drag this back to where the first line should start, often the left-has margin.
When you let go of the right-ident control, you’ll see you have created the hanging indent.
