Creating a hanging indent In a “hanging indent,” text before the tab marker hangs to the left—as you will often see in a bulleted or numbered list. To create a hanging indent for the information in the “If You Go” box, you will use the Tabs panel. You can also use the Left Indent and First Line Left Indent boxes in the Paragraph panel. 1 Using the Type tool ( ), select all the text in the “If You Go” box. � Note: If the Tabs
panel has moved, click its Position Panel Above Text Frame button (the magnet) at right.
2 Make sure that the Tabs panel is still aligned directly above the text frame. 3 In the Tabs panel, drag the bottom indent marker on the left side of the ruler to the right until the X value is 5p5. Dragging the bottom marker moves both indents at once. Notice how all the text shifts to the right, and the Left Indent value in the Paragraph panel changes to 5p5. Keep the text selected. Now you’ll bring just the category headings back to their original location in the frame to create a hanging indent.
� Tip: You can also
adjust the first-line indent for selected paragraphs by dragging the top indent marker on the tab ruler. However, it can be difficult to select the marker without accidentally creating or modifying a tab stop.
4 In the Paragraph panel, type –5p5 in the First Line Left Indent ( ) box. Deselect the text, and view the hanging indent.
5 Close the Tabs panel. Notice that the text now overflows the text frame (as indicated by the red plus sign in the lower-right corner of the text frame). There are many ways to remedy this, including expanding the text frame, tracking the text, or editing the text. In this case, you will edit the text. 6 Using the Type tool, double-click the word “through” in the “Hours” section. 7 Choose Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens And Dashes > En Dash. Delete any extra spaces around the dash. In many cases, editors (and their style guides) prefer an en dash to a hyphen in a range of numbers. 8 Choose File > Save. 190
Lesson 7 Working with Typography