If you don’t have a text box, create one now. Just click the icon of a “T” in the toolbar and then click and drag the mouse to draw the box. If your text box contains multiple citations or paragraphs that you want to indent, highlight all the text with your mouse now. If it’s just one citation, there’s no need to highlight it.
For example, if you want to indent the second line 0. 5 inches (the standard MLA indent size), move the blue triangle to the right until you see 0. 5. [1] X Research source
When you drag this line back to 0. 0, the first line of your citation will move back to the left edge of the text box, leaving you with a hanging indent on the subsequent lines.
If you want to copy text or a citation from another file, right-click the slide and select Paste without formatting so it inherits the hanging indent format.
If you don’t have a text box yet, just click the icon of a “T” in the toolbar and then click and drag the mouse to draw the box.
You might not see any evidence of this on the screen, but don’t worry—the second line is now on its own line.
Highlight the citations or paragraph(s) you want to indent. Click the Format menu. Select Align & Indent. Click Indentation options. Click the “Special indent” menu and choose Hanging. Adjust the size (0. 5 is the default) if necessary, and then click Apply.
If you haven’t already created a text box for your text, you can do so now—just click the icon of a “T” in the toolbar and then click and drag the mouse to draw the box.
