How To Add Hanging Indent On Microsoft Word

Answered By: Kathryn Park

Final Updated: Jul 31, 2019 Views: 2182950

It'south easier done than said (works for Word on PC or MAC):

See instructions for your phone or smaller devices

Place your cursor at the beginning of your citation, and highlight information technology.
Right click your mouse
Select Paragraph from the resulting pop upward bill of fare
Under Indentation, utilise the Special pull-down menu to select hanging
Use the Past menu to select 0.5"

For multiple Citations in a References, Works Cited or Bibliography Page

Once you've practical the hanging indent using the technique above, hit enter subsequently your citation.
If you are typing your commendation information technology should keep the same formatting. If yous are pasting in your commendation, right click when you paste and select the paste as text choice (looks similar a A on clipboard) and Word will automatically apply all the formatting you've already done, including hanging indent, spacing, font, etc. Alternatively you lot could wait until all your citations are on your bib, highlight them all at once, so use the 5 steps equally listed above.

Paste the text

Create a Hanging indent on your phone

Y'all might not see teh options on your phone. The fundamental is to rotate the screen to landscape mode so yous tin can see the available options (encounter images below to see the difference). Here are the steps:

Once you have typed in the text you want for your block quote, tap enter/return before the first word of the quote and later on the last give-and-take of the quote.
Highlight the text that you desire to indent.
Rotate your device so that yous're viewing information technology in mural fashion.
Choose the indent pick and you're skillful. If for some reason you tin' practise that, you lot'll have to tap the dot options that represent more menu options, bu that will take more steps.

View in Landscape Mode