Some of you are probably scratching your head and saying hourglass?
I am of course referring to the left margin of your ruler that contains 3 parts. I will go through all 3 and give you the menu equivalent to each piece. The menu equivalent is very important because if you deal with the hourglass directly, it amounts to direct formatting while modifying a style and dealing with the menu equivalent lends to a more permanent solution as per a style modification. So here we go.
1. Bottom Block of the hour glass. This controls your Left Indent. The menu equivalent is Left Indent under "Paragraph". Just so you know, at the far side of your ruler you have your right margin which sort of looks like "Home Plate" and its menu equivalent is Right Indent under Paragraph.
2. The pointing up portion of your hourglass. This controls The Hanging Indent and that refers to the positioning of anything from the 2nd line forward of your paragraph. The menu equivalent is under Paragraph under "Special" look for Hanging.
3. The pointing down portion of your hour glass controls the positioning of the first line of a paragraph. The menu equivalent is found under "Paragraph" look for First Line under special.
When tugging any portion of the hour glass on the ruler, if you hold down your Alt Key simultaneously, while positioning any portion of the ruler, you will get a "guide line" which will give you micro control. Give it a try.
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