Title: Old style indenting
Last modified: December 14, 2016

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# Old style indenting

 *  [bajaharry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bajaharry/)
 * (@bajaharry)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/)
 * My customer wants to be able to do the old style indenting, i.e.
 * a typing the paragraph and have it wrap so the text aligns with the first word.
   She does not want it to wrap like this just did. The word ‘not’ should align 
   with the word ‘typing’
 * Is there a secret keystroke to do this?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/#post-8552553)
 * Huh? Can you point to an example of something?
 * If you want to insert a new line in the editor, use SHIFT ENTER.
 *  Thread Starter [bajaharry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bajaharry/)
 * (@bajaharry)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/#post-8552674)
 * Yeah the example didn’t come out too clear. Here is an example:
 * [http://www.thebajaponyexpress.com/wp/2016/12/10/2575-121016/](http://www.thebajaponyexpress.com/wp/2016/12/10/2575-121016/)
 * If you scroll down the the ‘Baja Biz’ section you’ll see the customer starts 
   each line with a letter. She wants the paragraph that follow to indent, but the
   letter must remain on the left margin.
 * Thank you.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/#post-8552828)
 * That’s done with CSS.
 * For example, see [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2833068/text-indent-after-the-first-line-in-a-paragraph](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2833068/text-indent-after-the-first-line-in-a-paragraph)
 * You’ll have to tag those paragraphs with a style (as a div or spam) or use a 
   shortcode to wrap them to give them a selector to which which you can apply the
   CSS.
 * Or, you could use an ordered list:[http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp)
 * **To add CSS:** If you are using WordPress 4.7, use the “Custom CSS” option in
   the customizer. If your theme has a custom CSS option, use that to add the CSS
   shown above. If not, install the plugin [Simple Custom CSS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/).
   Or, if you have Jetpack installed, enable its [Custom CSS](https://jetpack.com/support/custom-css/)
   module.
 * Learn the [Chrome Developer Tools](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/)
   to help you see and test changes to your CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [bajaharry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bajaharry/)
 * (@bajaharry)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/#post-8561464)
 * I give up!! How do I put the following code into the css so the indent function
   works like we want it to.
 * <p style=”text-indent: -30px; padding-left: 35px;”>
 * I’ve searched around and nothing I’ve tried works. I don’t want to manually change
   every occurrence of the Indent.

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 * [Indent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/indent/)

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-style-indenting/#post-8552828)
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