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How to do hanging indent on Google Slides

Indent every line of a paragraph except the first, with the ruler indent markers.

Education
5 steps 2 min Community template
1

Click in the text

Double-click the paragraph you want to indent.

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Click in the text
2

Select the text

Press Ctrl + A (Cmd + A on Mac) to select the paragraphs.

3

Drag the left indent marker

Drag the triangle on the ruler right to 0.5 in. It moves the whole paragraph. Turn on the ruler with View > Show ruler if you cannot see it.

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Drag the left indent marker
4

Drag the first line marker back

Drag the small rectangle above the triangle back to the left edge. Only the first line moves, which makes the hanging indent.

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Drag the first line marker back
5

Hanging indent added

The first line starts at the margin and the other lines are indented.

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Hanging indent added

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