Styles and hanging indents in Word 2010

There are several ways to create a style in Word 2010. For example, if you
first display the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), you can then click the New
Style button. In the dialog box, type in a name and choose a style type.
Define the characteristics of the style. When you are done, click OK.

If you want to create a *paragraph* style, a quicker approach is to use the
Apply Styles pane (Ctrl+Shift+S), in which you can type in a style name and
click the New button. (The button only displays if you have typed in a
non-existing style name; otherwise it says Apply. Also note the Modify
button which is useful whenever you want to modify a style.)

Specifically, to create a hanging indent for a style: In the Modify Style
dialog box, click Format, and then click Paragraph. On the Indents and
Spacing tab, choose "Hanging" for "Special," and type in the desired value.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP





"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
news:

For the first time I'm trying to create a new document in Word 2010 (rather
than just editing documents created in Word 97.

I want to create a style called Bibliography, with a hanging indent -- but
how
do I create a hanging indent? How do I create a new style?

Help offers me a thing on how to create bulleted lists.

I suppose I could save the document as the old version, create the style in
Word 97, a nd continue working from there.

I see a lot of stuff in Word 2010 that I can't imagine ever wanting to use
like "intense" this or that, but the basic stuff like indents and block
quotes
doesn't seem to be there.


Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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