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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Setting Indents, Margins, and Columns</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148668"><bookmark_value>margins; setting with the mouse</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>columns; setting with the mouse</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>paragraphs; indents, margins and columns</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark_value>cell widths; using ruler</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>cell widths; using mouse</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155364" xml-lang="en-US">You can define the indents and margins for the current paragraph, or for all selected paragraphs, using the mouse.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152594" xml-lang="en-US">If you split the page into columns, or the cursor is placed in a multiple-column frame, you can change the column width and the column spacing by dragging them on the ruler with the mouse.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154398" xml-lang="en-US">When an object, an image, or a draw object is selected, you will see the borders of the object in the ruler. You can change the borders by dragging them on the ruler with the mouse.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146130" xml-lang="en-US">If the cursor is placed in a table cell, you can change the indents for the contents of the cell by dragging them with the mouse on the ruler. You can change the boundary lines of the table on the ruler or by dragging the actual boundary line.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150693" xml-lang="en-US">These icons mark the left indent for the first line of the current paragraph (top triangle) and the left indent for the other lines of the paragraph (bottom triangle).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154143" xml-lang="en-US">Set left indent</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154307" xml-lang="en-US">Drag the bottom left mark to the right while pressing the mouse button.</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155449" xml-lang="en-US">Set left indent of first line</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145673" xml-lang="en-US">Drag the top left mark to the right while pressing the mouse button.</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156156" xml-lang="en-US">Set right indent</paragraph>
</tablecell>
<tablecell>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153761" xml-lang="en-US">Drag the mark on the right to the left while pressing the mouse button.</paragraph>
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<tip id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US">In order to change the left indent starting with the second line of a paragraph, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><keycode>Command</keycode></caseinline><defaultinline><keycode>Ctrl</keycode></defaultinline></switchinline> key, click the triangle on the bottom left, and drag it to the right.</tip>
<note id="par_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US">Tabs that have been set are not changed when indenting a paragraph. If the set tabs end up outside the margins of the paragraph, they are no longer displayed, but they still exist.</note>
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