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Paragraph Indents in Microsoft Word
Rose DeSalvo wrote that she has a Word document with varying paragraph indentations, including some "hanging" indents, and asked how to adjust them to her own specifications. Indents can be set using Word's horizontal ruler. If it's not visible click on View>Ruler. Notice the three movable markers stacked near its left end. If you move the top marker to the right, all currently selected paragraphs will have their first line indented accordingly. Move the top marker to the left and the selected paragraphs will have a "hanging" indent (a.k.a an "outdent"). If you want successive paragraphs of a new document to have, say, half-inch first line indents, move the top marker to set the first paragraph accordingly. From then on pressing ENTER will begin each new paragraph with the same indentation. Moving the bottom marker will make the other two follow, causing all lines of selected paragraphs to move accordingly. By experimenting with the markers you can create your own special indenting. The way most folks do a first line paragraph indent is to simply press ENTER and then press the TAB key. Each time TAB is pressed the indent will increase by half an inch. However, Word's ruler allows for several kinds of special tab settings. A tiny square with an "L" to the left of the ruler indicates a left tab setting. Click the L and it becomes an "inverted T" for centered tabs. Another click displays a "backwards L" for right tabs. Click anywhere inside the ruler to establish a tab corresponding to the character in the tiny square, including a "decimal" tab to line up numbers of varying decimal places on their "decimal points." Lisa Guinn asked how to send video files to friends when her AOL Mail says the files are too large. Well, Gmail allows for larger attachments than other services and rarely blocks any due to size. Furthermore, Google Docs now accepts uploading of virtually any kind of file. If two or more people regularly share files, sign up with Docs.google.com and/or Gmail.com. A number of AOL users have asked how to cancel the service. Well, AOL doesn't want members to cancel, so they make it difficult. The most practical method is to ask your credit card company to stop the automatic AOL withdrawals. Then AOL will contact you and offer all kinds of incentives to not cancel. Once you've made it clear that they can no longer access your credit card they'll stop bothering you. If you are a broadband user who then wants to sign up for AOL's free service, go to www.aol.com and apply. There will be some hurdles, but you can in fact get a free account using your previous screen name and password. If you choose not to renew, be aware that you can keep your old AOL program and use it to access messages saved in your PFC (personal file cabinet) folders; but messages held online will only be available if you sign up again.
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