Word 2010: moving a block of text four columns right

[John Gray]

I used to know which keyboard shortcut(s) would do this, but I have both forgotten and cannot find the shortcuts on searches.

I have a block (that is, lots of lines) of mono-spaced text which I want to move four columns to the right to leave four blank spaces at the front of each line. How to do, please?

[HansV]

That sounds like functionality WordPerfect might have had. It's not a native feature of Word.

May I assume that the Increase Indent button on the Home tab of the ribbon does not satisfy your requirement?

[John Gray]

Hans: I'm sure you told me how to do it last time! But it was a long time ago...

[HansV]

Will each line be a separate paragraph?

[John Gray]

Yes - I'm only using Word because there are too many 'poison characters' in this text file to enable me to process it with a BATch file. Format is

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I am trying to move everything right to be able to insert the three-day Day of the Week abbreviation in front of the date.

Something to do with Ctrl+F9 rings a vague bell, with the right arrow key moving Stuff right - but it isn't that...

[HansV]

You could create this macro:

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Sub InsertSpaces()
    Dim par As Paragraph
    For Each par In Selection.Paragraphs
        par.Range.InsertBefore Space(4)
    Next par
End Sub

If you need to run it frequently, you can assign it to a custom keyboard shortcut.

[John Gray]

Thanks, Hans - annoyingly it's just a one-off...