Unwanted indent in document notes

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I am brand new to the software, I have gone through the tutorial and am very excited to get started with my first project.

Somehow I seem to have a paragraph indent effective in my document notes, that I don’t want. I did set a paragraph indent in the document editor, but I don’t know if that is how this happened. Changing the indent now in the document editor does not change this indent in my document notes. I have tried deleting before the first of the paragraphs in the notes, hoping it was just a stray tab character or something, but apparently not. I looked through the user manual and didn’t find this particular issue.

… Now, thinking about it, I do think I started with a copy / paste of some text from the document window to the document notes, and the indent showed up then. In other documents, if I just start typing document notes, no indent.

Anyway, for my learning curve, does someone have a suggestion for how to get rid of this indent in the notes?

Thanks so much.

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Hi, and welcome! The editor indent settings don’t affect the document notes, but you could easily get the indent via a copy and paste, since that retains formatting, and following paragraphs would then use the formatting of the preceding line. In future you may want to try using Edit > Paste and Match Style (Ctrl+Shift+V) to paste into the notes as plain-text, stripping the indentation and other formatting.

You can decrease the first-line indent of selected paragraphs using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T. Without the Shift, the shortcut will increase the first-line indent. You can increase or decrease the left indent using Ctrl+(Shift)+Q.

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Oh my goodness, thanks! Those suggestions work great. Thanks for the fast reply!