Bug 133001

Controls for the requested actions are provided as spin box measurement inputs in the Paragraph dialog's Indents & Spacing dialog; and on the Sidebar Properties deck' Paragraph content panel.

Current dialog and Sidebar controls support Direct Formatting (DF), but work best when used for modifying Paragraph style. No UNO controls exist for applying this DF as keyboard or toolbar button action.

IMHO this is correct, and this is a WONTFIX as requested UNO controls would inherently be used for DF of text rather than correct usage of Paragraph styles.

Created attachment 160800 [details]
paragraph formatting sidebar

Hi thanks for the reply Stuart; I am looking at the attached paragraph formatting siderbar but I don't see an option to indent only lines 2+ of the paragraph? Apologies for the ignorance

Guess you talk about different topics. First the topic is UNO commands, which would allow menu/toolbar entries and shortcuts. We don't want to facilitate direct formatting, what this indentation would be and there fore the request should be rejected. By the way, recently two new default paragraph styles were introduced, one with first line indentation, the second with hanging indentation. Which brings me to the second part, the "how to indent lines 2+". You probably want to keep the first line at the left margin but indent everything that follow. Use a positive value for "before text" like 1cm and the same but negative value for "first line" -1cm. Whether done per sidebar or via properties dialog doesn't matter. And ideally you create/modify a paragraph style.

hi thanks to both of you for replying... I will leave it to you classify / mark off this thread as you desire