Answered By: Kathryn Park
Last Updated: Nov 16, 2023     Views: 161706

Google Docs can create hanging indents for you. Here's how: 

  1. Highlight your citation (or list of citations).
  2. Select Format in the Google Docs toolbar.
  3. Select Align & Indent.
  4. Select Indentation options.
    Google Docs hanging
  5. In the Indentation options box, select Special indent > Hanging
  6. By default, 0.5 comes up, which is what you want. Then select apply and your citations now have hanging indent. 

Comments (9)

  1. This was very helpful. Thank you my good sir.
    by Sean on Nov 22, 2017
  2. My IPad would automatically indent when I hit return. It didn’t work
    by Anonymous on Mar 05, 2018
  3. Sorry it's not working for you Anonymous. If you are a COM student I recommend coming into the library so we can help you with it. You can also download MS Word for free which would make your life a lot easier. If you are not a COM student, a good option is till to go to your local library where they would probably be happy to help.
    by Kathryn Park on Mar 06, 2018
  4. If this doesn't work for you: Highlight the sentence you want to indent. Tap the A. You will see the words "text"and "paragraph". look at the word "text." look under it. Look under the one under text. tap on it. Your sentence will be indented.
    by Ez Ways on Dec 21, 2018
  5. Thank you, this helped me immensely with a last minute project :)
    by Heyo on Apr 11, 2019
  6. INCREDIBLY helpful!! I spent almost half an hour trying to figure it out before finding this guide, which fixed all my problems immediately! Thank you!
    by Ashleigh on May 29, 2019
  7. Really helpful! I could never figure this out!
    by Reece Murray on Jan 13, 2020
  8. this worked perfect. thank you for understanding my question. you understood the assignment.😙
    by ur mom on Oct 09, 2021
  9. This actually helped so much I’ve been trying to learn how to do this forever thank you
    by Max McCluskey on Sep 25, 2022

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