I'm having difficulty getting my sentences to not indent so far at the beginning of each sentence. I know that we set up a new paragraph style to fix this problem in class but I'm not sure how. I also have trouble finding the tool box that would help me move columns further apart and push my text an equal distance from my pictures. Please help!
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Phil Levin said
at 12:11 pm on Mar 24, 2009
Paragraph indent:
Highlight all of the text in the text box. Adjust "First Line Left Indent" - it's the parameter on the bottom row to the right of the justifications.
Column gutter:
In Layout > Margins and Columns, adjust the "gutter."
Text wrap:
To push text automatically a certain distance from an image, apply a text wrap to the image. Select the image and got to Window > Test Wrap and adjust the parameters as necessary.
Kathleen Culver said
at 12:52 pm on Mar 24, 2009
Thanks for the response!
One other problem to check. You might have brought in text from Word that still has a tab at the beginning of each graf. Put the cursor after a first-line space and backspace to make sure you don't have a tab there (you can also show invisibles to check this).
Get into the habit of importing text with all MS Word formatting removed. This is an option in the file/place dialog boxes.
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