way to do a "double hanging indent"

[Chip Orange]

We have recently converted a large document operation from WordPerfect to
Word. We have documents formatted whose layout had been aided by a WP
feature that allowed us to do a "double hanging indent".

We can't find a way to do something similar in Word, so we've been
redesigning documents into tables to use tabular columns in place of a
hanging indent inside of a hanging indent.

Is this the only/best way to achieve this kind of layout?

Thanks.

Chip

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[Graham Mayor]

If you can explain for the benefit of those of us who don't use WordPerfect
what a 'double hanging indent' is, we will be able to tell you what is
possible in Word.

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[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Format your paragraph with an indent on both the right and left side. I'm
guessing that you are really talking about a "pulled quote". (Format |
Paragraph)

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, that would be a double indent (and it's a "block quote," not a "pull
quote," which is something else entirely). A double hanging indent, I would
guess, is one that has a hanging indent on the second line and then another,
larger left indent somewhere below that. I don't believe there's any good
way to achieve this in Word. In WordPerfect, there is a command (Ctrl+F7) to
"create a hanging indent here." You insert the code, and it resets the left
indent at that point until you change it, which you can do later in the same
paragraph.

 

[Chip Orange]

Exactly, thanks so much Suzanne for explaining it, and I apologize for not
being clearer.

We've so far tried using a 2 column table to achieve the first hanging
indent; the left column is rather narrow and holds the beginning of the
paragraph (that's outdented), and the right column holds the remaining,
indented, part of the paragraph. Within this right-hand column we format
the paragraph as a hanging indent, to achieve the twice indented portion of
the last part of the paragraph.

The places where we use this aren't always suited to tables, so I was hoping
there was a better way to do this.

Thanks.

Chip

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What determines where the second hanging indent begins? If it follows a line
break, then perhaps you could substitute a paragraph break and use two
separate paragraphs, with different formatting?

 

[Chip Orange]

Thanks, but nothing that easy. The second one is usually something like:

Company Name: Very Very Very Long Company Name Here Which Should Wrap Under
Itself But It Doesn't ...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm a little confused. Why doesn't it wrap under itself? Or what do you mean
by "under itself"? If you've got something like this:

Company Data:
Company Name: Very Very Very Long Company Name Here Which Should
Wrap Under Itself
Company Address: Address Block

Then is the *first* line separable (as a heading)? If not, I'd insert line
breaks as needed, then insert tab characters to take text to a tab set at
the appropriate location. It's a kludge, but it's the only way I know of.

 

[Guest]

To indent the WHOLE thing -- select the paragraph or click inside it and
then CONTROL+M.
To have the first line start at the left and the rest of the lines wrap to
an indent, try CONTROL+T. Play around until you get what you want.

Then make a STYLE for each of your varying hanging paragraphs. After that,
just apply the STYLE to the paragraph.