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You can change the borders by dragging them on the ruler with the mouse.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146130" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">If the cursor is placed in a table cell, you can change the indents for the contents of the cell by dragging them with the mouse on the ruler. You can change the boundary lines of the table on the ruler or by dragging the actual boundary line.</paragraph> 56<table id="tbl_id3157896"> 57<tablerow> 58<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156136" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 60<image id="img_id3153750" src="res/helpimg/linleft.png" width="0.1665inch" height="0.2291inch"><alt id="alt_id3153750" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 61 </image></paragraph> 62</tablecell> 63<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150693" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">These icons mark the left indent for the first line of the current paragraph (top triangle) and the left indent for the other lines of the paragraph (bottom triangle).</paragraph> 65</tablecell> 66</tablerow> 67<tablerow> 68<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150774" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 70<image id="img_id3145071" src="res/helpimg/linright.png" width="0.3646inch" height="0.2602inch"><alt id="alt_id3145071" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 71 </image></paragraph> 72</tablecell> 73<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3166460" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">This icon on the right of the ruler marks the right indent of the current paragraph.</paragraph> 75</tablecell> 76</tablerow> 77</table> 78 79<table id="tbl_id3148538"> 80<tablerow> 81<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 82<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146949" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 83<emph>Task</emph> 84</paragraph> 85</tablecell> 86<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 87<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153087" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 88<emph>Procedure</emph> 89</paragraph> 90</tablecell> 91</tablerow> 92<tablerow> 93<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 94<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Set left indent</paragraph> 95</tablecell> 96<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 97<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154307" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Drag the bottom left mark to the right while pressing the mouse button</paragraph> 98</tablecell> 99</tablerow> 100<tablerow> 101<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 102<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155449" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Set left indent of first line</paragraph> 103</tablecell> 104<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 105<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145673" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Drag the top left mark to the right while pressing the mouse button</paragraph> 106</tablecell> 107</tablerow> 108<tablerow> 109<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 110<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156156" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Set right indent</paragraph> 111</tablecell> 112<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 113<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153761" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Drag the mark on the right to the left while pressing the mouse button</paragraph> 114</tablecell> 115</tablerow> 116</table> 117 118<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">In order to change the left indent starting with the second line of a paragraph, hold down the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl </defaultinline></switchinline> key, click the triangle on the bottom left, and drag it to the right.</paragraph> 119<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Tabs that have been set are not changed when indenting a paragraph. If the set tabs end up outside the margins of the paragraph, they are no longer displayed, but they still exist.</paragraph> 120</body> 121</helpdocument> 122
