How to Set Auto

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Start the Microsoft Word application. At the top, in between 'Insert' and 'Tools,' Click on 'Format' (blue highlighted section with the blue circle in the caption).
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Scroll down to 'Paragraph' (blue highlighted text with blue arrow in caption) and right click it. This will open up the 'Paragraph options' box and allow you to customize a few things, including auto-indent.
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Go to the 'Indentation' box in the second section from the top, and hit the drop-down arrow in the 'Special' column (the left option in the red box in caption), and choose 'First Line.' Then click the drop-down arrow in the 'By' column and choose how much indent you wish the document to have--standard is 0.5. Then, click “OK” (located in the green box in caption) and your document will auto-indent by half an inch at the start of every new paragraph.