Adding a space at the beginning of a line, bloody thing won't do i

[Guest]

I'm making a poster for a presentation on Tuesday. I have a series of
bulleted statements. Right now, it looks like:

Cornea: Protective layer in front
of the eye

I want it to look like:

Cornea: Protective layer in front
of the eye

Apparently though, spaces are not allowed to be used at the beginning of a
line. Completely illogical and totally worthless. I've tried everything I
know how to do and nothing works. Tabbing, for example, moves the second
line over much much too far. Ruler will not move just the bottom lines, the
top arrow of the ruler moving all the bullets and the bottom arrow moving all
the text. The poster has to look fairly professional, but right now it looks
like a mess. Any suggestions?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi fellow eye-guy,

I'm sorry this has caused you to have a bad night. The solution is pretty
simple, but only when you know where to look. First you will need to
display the ruler: View => Ruler (select it if it is not checked). Now make
sure that your text boxes' alignment is set to left justified: Select the
text box => Format => Alignment => Align Left. Next, you get to use the
nifty little carrots (I don't know what they are really called, but since
this is about eyes, I figure carrots is good).

The top carrot determines the position of the first line within a paragraph.
If you click on it and drag it in, the first line of text will become
indented. This isn't what you want, but is way cool, also. Better put it
back out to the left margin so we don't mess up your poster.

The one you want is the lower carrot. Dragging it in will indent all the
subsequent lines of text (everything but the line that follows a hard return
or paragraph change). Bingo, solved, pretty easy huh? Unfortunally it is
easy only in hindsight.

Anyway, here's looking at you(r poster), kid.


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