Keep your text inline with hanging indents (InDesign CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

Hanging indents in Adobe InDesign enable you to indent and align paragraphs that are demarcated with special characters, such as bullets. This is a great way to draw attention to specific portions of a story and it looks really nice too! To create a hanging indent, first replace the current space between the special character and the paragraph that follows with a tab space. The default space is 0.5 inches. This is a bit much, so you may want to specify a new tab space (around 0.25 inches) via the Tab panel (Type menu). Next, via the Paragraph panel or the Control panel in Paragraph Formatting view, enter the tab stop value in the Left Indent text box and enter the exact negative value of the tab stop in the First Line Left Indent text box. Finally, press [enter] to apply the new indent values to the paragraph. To format additional paragraphs similarly, save the formatting as a paragraph style and apply the style to the target paragraphs.