Changing Paragraph Attributes
The instructions here are for creating a hanging paragraph which is one in which he first line starts a few spaces before rest of the lines in the paragraph. In an APA paper, the first line of each references starts 5 spaces before the rest of the lines in the reference. Doing this manually is a gigantic waste of time. If you are using a reference manager such as End Note or Reference Manager the list of references would automatically be done for you. However, there may be other times when you wish to have hanging paragraphs.
As you will see when you look at the window that you use to create a hanging paragraph, you can also make many other changes to paragraph formatting. Just be sure to select the paragraph or paragraphs before making the changes.
Word 2007 & Word 2003
Note: If when you are creating the reference list, if you make the top most references a hanging paragraph, those that follow will automatically inherit this format.
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Word Perfect
Be sure that the first line of the paragraph is not indented with either 5 spaces or a tab. If there is a Left Tab code at the beginning of each paragraph, use the Find and Replace codes in the alphabetizing file (Code is "Left Tab"). To remove spaces insert the number of spaces in the Find box and replace with nothing.
If it is only one paragraph, with your insertion point at the beginning of the paragraph, tap Ctrl+7.
To create hanging paragraphs of an entire reference list, select all the references, and tap Ctrl+F7.