You can create a hanging indent on Word by adjusting the format options. Hanging indents are commonly used in works cited and bibliographies.

The default document settings in Word 2010 create documents with the necessary margins and justification, but you have to do a bit more formatting to create a document with full block configuration.

Spaces and tabs might be the quickest way to indent a paragraph in Word, but you might be sorry. Instead, use built-in indents to avoid random spaces and tabs rearranging your content unexpectedly.