OpenOffice.org Writer gives you two ways to change the indentation in your documents: visually or numerically. Either method allows you to alter left, right and first-line indentation.

Indents are used to distinguish one paragraph from another, but hanging indents are used in citations. Here's how to create one on Google Docs easily.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 311, No. 1506 (Jul. 29, 1969), pp. 429-444 (17 pages) It is shown that the mechanism and extent of the ...