Indentation: IP command

To set paragraph indentation, use the IP (indent paragraph) command:

1	Place your cursor at the beginning of the text you want to indent.

2	Press F9 to access the action line.

3	Type ip f,s,r

f is the size of the left indent for the first line of a paragraph.

s (optional) is the size of the left indent for the subsequent lines in a paragraph.

r (optional) is the size of the right indent.

4	Press F10 to implement the command.

If no units of measurement are specified, the default units will be assumed (inches unless you have changed the defaults). Assuming that your default unit of measurement is inches, you could type the following command in step 3 to indent the first and subsequent lines by one inch, and to indent the right margin by half an inch:

ip 1,1,.5

Other units can be specified as part of the command. For example, to indent the first and subsequent lines by 1 centimeter, with no right indentation, type the following command:

ip 1cm,1cm, 0cm

If the value r is 0, it can be omitted. For example the following command would have the same effect as the IP command in the example above:

ip 1cm,1cm

Similarly, the last two, or all 3 values can be omitted. Use the following command to return to no left or right indentation at all.

To indent to a tab stop, use @ts# in the command where # is the number of the tab stop (the first, second, third, etc.). For example, the following command would indent the first line in each paragraph to the first tab stop, and subsequent lines would be indented to the second tab stop.

ip @ts1,@ts2

Note that in each case there is a space after the ip and before any modifiers that follow it.