In case you want to have the indentation in multiple lines, you need to place the cursor at each line and add the space characters. Enter the space character to get the desired indentation.Place the cursor where you want to insert in the indentation.Double-click on the cell (or press F2 to get into the edit mode).Select all the text in the document by pressing the Ctrl+A key combination. Select several paragraphs with the mouse. Select the part of the document you want to be formatted as a hanging indented paragraph: Put the cursor within a single paragraph. Suppose you have a dataset as shown below and you want to indent all the lines after the first line.Д«elow are the steps to add an indent to multiple lines in the same cell: Select the necessary part of the document. You can do this by manually adding the space characters before the lines in which you want to add the indent. This, however, can be done with a work-around that is not very elegant. As soon as you get into the edit mode in a cell, the indent options are grayed out. Unfortunately, you can not do that using the indenting options covered above. In case you have multiple lines in the same cell, you may want to indent only some of the cells and not the others. Indenting Individual Lines in the Same Cell Just right-click on the indentation icon and then click on the вЂAdd to Quick Access ToolbarвЂ™вЂДЇun fact: When you indent using these options, Excel indents equivalent to three space characters. You can also use Shift+Ctrl+T to undo the indent by one tab stop. Each press of the shortcut indents the hang one more tab stop. If there are no explicit tab stops in the paragraph, then Word indents to the next default tab stop, typically one-half inch. If you need to change the indentation quite often, you can also add the indent icons to the Quick Access Toolbar. This 'hangs' a paragraph to the next tab stop. So, if you have multiple lines in the same cell, all the lines would be indented. Note that the indentation is applied to the entire cell content. In the Alignment group, click on the indent icons (based on whether you want to indent left or right).Select the cells where you want to apply the indentation.If you prefer using the mouse instead, Excel has the options in the ribbon where you can indent with a click on a button.Д«elow are the steps to indent using the ribbon options: To use this shortcut, select the cells where you want to apply the indent and then press these keys in succession (one after the other). Suppose you have a data set as shown below and you want to intend the numbers a little to the right.Д«elow is the keyboard shortcut you can do to that: ALT + H + 6 (to indent to the right) ALT + H + 5 (to indent to the left) Indenting Individual Lines in the Same Cell.

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