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[Dropped] Indenting Text - Avery Labels

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Apologies if this has come up before. I'm using the 3 x 7 avery 7160 sheet for my labels. Everything works OK but I cannot find a way of setting up the label/sheet so that when you type on any label the text is a little indented to the right on every line. The default seems to be having the text at the extreme left hand edge of the label.
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Re: Indenting Text - Avery Labels

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quarkrad wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:21 pm I cannot find a way of setting up the label/sheet so that when you type on any label the text is a little indented to the right on every line.
You indent in a label the same way you indent in any other Writer document. Select the lines. Format → Paragraph → Indents & Spacing → Indent → Before text → Amount you want. Preferably do this with a style instead of with Format → Paragraph.

quarkrad wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:21 pm … so that when you type on any label …
Normally labels are used with the Mail Merge feature where the data on the labels comes from a data source. It would be unusual, and perhaps inconvenient for you, to type in the Writer document on the labels. You can use a spreadsheet as your data source.
Writer Guide Chapter 11: Using Mail Merge

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Re: Indenting Text - Avery Labels

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Try to adjust the width of the label a bit.
You should be able to decrease the width slightly on the tab Size.

Don't know if that will cause the adjacent labels to move to the left too, but...
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