To access the AutoFormat As You Type Tab, take the following steps:ġ. Word’s default settings enable many AutoFormat As You Type options. For example, AutoFormat As You Type will change "straight" quotes to “smart” quotes, superscript ordinals from 4th to 4 th, change double hyphens - to dashes –, and format bulleted lists. Solution: Disable the AutoFormat As You Type option that automatically superscripts all ordinals.Įxplanation: AutoFormat As You Type automatically configures text for designated text as you type. Because Word automatically changes ordinals into superscripts, your citations do not comply with the Bluebook’s required format. The first lines of the paragraphs that follow it (2) are indented.Problem: You keep typing 4th, but Word insists on displaying 4 th.Paragraph 1 is the first in the chapter.The following example is taken from Part 5, Chapter 2, of Christopher Priest’s Inverted World (p. The convention applies regardless of your line spacing.This is standard with narrative and dialogue.You might hear editorial folks refer to this non-indented text as full out. To mark this bigger shift in a novel, it’s conventional not to indent the first line of text in a new chapter or a new section. part of the same scene.Ĭhapters and sections are bigger shifts: perhaps the viewpoint character changes, or there's a shift in timeline or location. Indented paragraphs are related to what's come before. Connectivity: They indicate a journey.Readability: They help the reader identify the shifts visually.Paragraph indents have two purposes in fiction:
Still, the prose in all those paragraphs within a section is connected. perhaps a new idea, piece of action, thought or speaker, even a moderation or acceleration of pace. Each new paragraph signifies a change or shift of some sort.
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