Text indent in Word 2002

[Sebastian Lange]

Hi,

When I write essays for instance I want automatic text indent in the left
side of the document.
My problem is that if I set automatic indent of the first line, Word moves
the VERY first line (including the headline) and lines after 2 breaks.
I only want indent after 1 break.
Like in books you know.

Not this:
(Very first line, indent)
Hello, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
(2 breaks = indendt)
bla bla bla bla bla bla ...

but this:
(Very first line, no indent)
Hello, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
(2 breaks, no indent)
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla ...

Hope you can help me, thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need two different Body Text styles: Body Text, with no indent and 12
pts Space Before and Body Text First Indent with no space before. You can
easily modify the built-in styles with these names. Both are formatted with
6 pts Space After, which you will remove, and you'll probably want to change
the amount of the first-line indent. Set Body Text First Indent as the
"Style for following paragraph" of Body Text so that you will get it
automatically when you press Enter. You may also want to assign a keyboard
shortcut to Body Text for ease of application.