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Hanging Indent

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:44 am

In word processing, a paragraph that has all lines but the first indented. A hanging indent is also known as a hanging paragraph. With many word processors, you can create hanging indents by specifying a negative indentation for the first line of each paragraph.

The following is an example of a hanging indent:

hanging indent