: Second line indent in inDesign I know, There is a way to indent the first line ONLY. Also to indent the entire paragraph besides the first line. What I'm looking to do is to indent the 2nd

@Courtney577

I think the answer you are looking for is here: indesignsecrets.com/creating-dropwords-indesign.php


There are a lot of steps but basically:


make a character style for your drop word, keeping in mind that you'll need to adjust the font-size a lot and add a baseline shift. For 12pt text, you can start with setting the text at 4pt with a baseline shift of 14.5pt, and fine-tune it later
Make paragraph style with a dropcap of 2 lines and 3 for characters and apply the character style to the dropcap
Duplicate/repeat paragraph styles for each word length, 2-letter words, 4-letters - up to as many letters as you think you'll need. You don't need a 1-letter style, as you need to account for the space after the word, so 2 is the smallest style you'll need.
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Apply each style to a paragraph as needed

OR

4b. Go to FindChangeByList under Window-Utilities-Scripts, then Application-Samples-Javascript


Choose Reveal in Finder and now for the complicated part:



Inside the FindChangeSupport folder, create a backup of the
“findchangebylist.txt” by changing its name to something like
“findchangebylist_orig.txt,” then duplicate it and give the duplicate
a different name, such as “findchange-dropwords.txt”.

Now you need to edit that findchange_dropwords text file. You must use
a text editor that cannot apply any formatting (I use TextWrangler on
the Mac). Get rid of all the find/change queries in there, and replace
them with your own. Your query should search for every place where a
paragraph style such as “dropword” is applied, and then change it to a
different paragraph style based on the length of the first word.

So, for example, this crazy code below will search for 3-letter first
words and apply the “dropword3” style (which, remember, actually
applies a drop cap of 4 letters, so that it includes the space after
the word):


grep {findWhat:"^w{3}s", appliedParagraphStyle:"dropword"}
{appliedParagraphStyle:"dropword3"} {searchBackwards:false,
includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false,
includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false,
includeFootnotes:true, kanaSensitive:false, widthSensitive:true} //3 letter first word



You need a line like this
for every paragraph style you’ve created — you just need to change the
names of the paragraph styles and the length of the word. (The length
of the word is the part that says w{3} — that just means a 3-letter
word)

When you’re done, save the text file and run the script by
double-clicking on FindChangeByList.jsx in the Scripts panel. Because
you renamed the original findchange text file, the script won’t know
which one to use, and it will ask you. Choose the new one you made, of
course, and click OK.

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@Dunderdale640

I don't believe there is a setting to do this in InDesign but there are 2 work arounds.

1) Use text wrap on an invisible box



or

2) Line break + Tab

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