Create indentation for all its simplicity and prosaic often causes a lot of questions.They relate to, and how to indent, and how to eliminate design errors, and what you need to follow tradition when formatting the text for different purposes.
Why use indention
Red Line, or indentation, greatly facilitates the perception of the text as visually separates one paragraph from another, structuring the printed page, and stressing the logical composition of the text.
in paper editions of the paragraphs highlighted by the fact that the beginning of each of them relegated to a few characters or to the right (in plain text) or to the left (in the texts of presentations, booklets, or if required by the design idea).
on browser pages (online text) paragraphs are not indented, but are separated by an extra line (or increased interval).
confuse these two design options should not be.In publishing the paper edition indentation should be used and not to separate the text fragments increased interval and when preparing the text for publication in a network is better to use an empty string or increased interval - in this form and paper, and the network text is easy to read.
Create a red line using the dialog box "Passage»
Indention in "the Word" can be created in several ways.
Select all text (tool "Select All" or the Alt and A (F)) and call the dialog "Passage": tab "Page Layout", press the call button of the dialog box (the small icon to the right of the word "paragraph"- a triangle inscribed in a square).In the resulting window, select the tab, "Indents and Spacing", find the "Offset" and in the "Indent" option, set the "first line".Dialog "Passage" can also be accessed from the tab "Home" group "Passage".
Create a red line with a ruler
Highlight the text and adjust the margins by using the slider on the ruler.To the right are two slider - upper and lower.The bottom is designed to align the normal lines, the top - to align the red lines.By moving the upper slider will change indentation.
Faulty design using spaces
editors and proofreaders book publishers, as well as university teachers often have to deal with errors clearance indentation in the manuscripts.
The most common of them - the indentation is created with spaces.For some reason, many people prefer to align text, captions, poems, with the help of gaps.Often there are even blank lines and the relocation of text to the next line with this sign.Of course, it does work on a text laborious and naughty lyrics.If you format and layout of the string "go" indentation can get unequal length, and so on. N. Typeset this text is very difficult: you first need to get rid of the many gaps.With regard to the registration of the student qualification works, then, unfortunately, the use of spaces is a blow to the reputation of the student, as it looks very "primeval" and inept.
Unnecessary decoration using tabs
second mistake - it is inappropriate to use the key "Tab".Not only that the text contains unnecessary signs that interfere with processing and final preparation of the text for publication, they greatly complicate the work on a text infinitely obliging the author to press.In addition, the design of indentation using the tab entails mistakes: First, according to statistics, the author regularly forgets to press at the start of a new paragraph, and secondly, errors occur when the author decides to break the existing paragraph on two or more.
the Tab is better to use only in the design of these pieces of text that differ from the main unit: it can be poetry, the wording of the rules, laws, conclusions, and so on. N. Each fragment is entirely appropriate to draw it using the indentation created tab.
How quickly eliminate errors
If indentation in the text already decorated erroneous text is crowded with unnecessary non-printing characters, before preparing the text for publication they must be eliminated.Check the text for such errors can be using the tool "Show all signs" (the "Main" group "Passage").
eliminate unnecessary signs can be using the tool "Replace" (the "Main" band "Edit").In the "Find" enter two spaces in the "Replace" enter a single space.Click "Replace All."All double spaces will be replaced with the unit.Press the "Replace All" as long as the report after changing is not specified "number of substitutions made - 0".
If the number of spaces in front of each of the first row is odd, then the unit will need to remove the remaining gap.In the "Find", insert a paragraph mark ("More" - "Special" - "a paragraph mark") and a space, in the "Replace" - only the paragraph mark.The command "Replace All" will remove the space after paragraphs.
a similar manner can be removed and tabs, and many whimsical combination of unnecessary characters (for example, sometimes, especially after prolonged use of the text and multiple returns to him, the gaps are duplicated tab characters).
After cleaning the file of such errors can be correctly execute indentation.
