Microsoft Word - How to set First line Indent for Paragraphs?

First line indentation in the Paragraphs tells it is a new paragraph and gives more readability. By default Microsoft Word doesn’t indent the first line in the Paragraphs.

You can do the indentation two ways. One is applicable to the current document and other way is applicable to all the Word documents by default.

We will cover both these through this Article.

This Articles applies to Microsoft Word 2013

Step 1. Select HOME tab from the ribbon. Microsoft Word displays the current available styles under Styles group. Styles are used to give more rich look and feel to the Word document.

Step 2. From Styles group, right click on the current applied style. Word will display the pop-up menu. And select the Modify… menu item from the pop-up menu. Microsoft Word displays the Modify Style dialog.

Modify Style dialog allows the Users to modify the style. That means, it allows to customize the style.

Apply the indentation to ONLY to the current document

Step 3. From Modify Style dialog; select “Only in this document” option to apply the indentation to ONLY to the currently opened document.

You can skip the next steps, if you want to indent the First line of the Paragraph in the current document ONLY

Apply the indentation to all the Word documents

Step 4. From Modify Style dialog; select “New documents based on this template” to apply the indentation to ALL the Word documents which are using this template.

Step 5. Click on Format button. Microsoft Word displays a popup-menu; select Paragraph… menu item from it to open the Paragraph dialog.

Step 6. From Paragraph dialog, select First Line entry from the Special combo box which is under Indentation group.

Step 7. Click on OK button to apply the changes. The changes will be applicable to all the new Word documents which are using the selected Style.